The Effect of a Second Trump Presidency On Environmental Justice
The Biden Administration made environmental justice a priority of its environmental programs, even creating new councils focused specifically on environmental justice. It issued new initiatives and guidance for agencies on how to consider environmental justice in existing environmental statutory schemes, and made significant funding available. What will happen to all of these initiatives when President Trump takes office in 2025? What does this mean for environmental justice efforts in New York and New Jersey?
December 17, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Environmental justice refers to the principal that every person, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, should enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards as well as equal access to the decision-making process affecting them. It is meant to address circumstances in which minority communities disproportionately bare the burden of environmental contamination. See U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Justice, www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice.
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