Competing Takes on 'Environmental Justice' "The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of ...

Those impacts are still apparent, said Asenhat Gómez, interim executive director of local org El Puente. The local community ...

As President Biden officially announces his reelection bid for 2024, we look at his recent executive order establishing a new Office of Environmental Justice within the White House and requiring ...

“This does not mean that race-conscious environmental justice efforts are doomed—but the court clearly signaled that the strict-scrutiny test has very sharp teeth,” Emily Hammond, a ...

The EPA Is Backing Down From Environmental Justice Cases Nationwide . The agency has pumped the brakes on Civil Rights Act investigations out of apparent fear that a Louisiana challenge could make ...

NJ Environmental Justice Law in Effect Over Two Years After Signing The pollution-preventing law comes after controversial power plant proposals in minority neighborhoods ...

Disparities in exposure to environmental hazards in the air; in water; in soil; and from infrastructure continue to persist today. For this reason, environmental justice is a necessary ...

Mayfield is from Chester, a city of 34,000 just 15 miles southwest of Philadelphia, which is widely known as an environmental ...

The reduction-in-force letters were sent to nearly 200 employees of the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights. ... The RIF notices now served take effect on July 31.