Feb 5, 2025 · EPA's goal is to provide an environment where all people enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to maintain a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.

For two decades, the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) has raised concerns about environmental issues that disproportionately affect farmworker communities.

Jan 8, 2025 · The project will increase farm workers' awareness of pesticides and safety, and involvement with environmental justice issues within their own community. Secondly, CPAP will invite farm workers and other interested community members to communicate and strategize about the best ways to address the identified EJ issues.

5 days ago · Employees in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been told they are being placed on paid administrative leave as the agency ...

Feb 5, 2025 · Enhanced weathering (EW) with agriculture uses crushed silicate rocks to drive carbon dioxide removal (CDR)1,2. If widely adopted on farmlands, it could help achieve net-zero emissions by 20502–4.

5 days ago · Nearly 170 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) were placed on paid administrative leave on Thursday, according to ...

3 days ago · Then on Thursday, the agency put 168 staffers on administrative leave; those affected worked on environmental justice issues across the EPA’s 10 regional offices and at its headquarters. The ...

5 days ago · President Donald Trump has significantly reduced staffing within a civil rights office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently investigating dozens of complaints, including two involving the placement of industrial swine and poultry operations in predominantly nonwhite communities. The EPA has placed 168 employees on leave within the Office of Environmental Justice and External ...

4 days ago · EPA environmental justice workers were charged with administering more than $2.8 billion earmarked for environmental and climate justice work in underserved and polluted communities in the 2022 ...

5 days ago · The EPA notified 168 employees working for the agency's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights - a division tasked with integrating equity and civil rights into environmental ...