The Biden administration made environmental justice a key part of EPA policy ... And I got a little sheet of paper and jotted out a definition: environmental racism is racial discrimination ...

developers and agencies are incentivized to give "community or neighborhood character" the narrowest definition possible, as to not consider environmental justice impacts a category for negative ...

New York has joined states like New Jersey and Maryland, which have enacted environmental justice laws. New York's Environmental Justice Siting ...

The bill brings to the spotlight what are known as environmental justice areas ... slightly expanded the definition of “electric generating facilities” and added public health as one of ...

Over the past four years, the Biden administration said it has funneled hundreds of billions of dollars to help towns and neighborhoods most harmed by pollution. The money, largely through the ...

That included the revoking of Executive Order 12898, President Bill Clinton’s landmark order establishing federal actions to address environmental justice in minority and low-income populations ...

And it has demolished federal work on environmental justice, which dates back to the George H. W. Bush administration. As part of its purge of so-called DEI initiatives, the administration put 160 ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s dismantling of its Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights leaves the EPA far less equipped to protect disadvantaged communities from ...