EPA Details ‘Needs’ To Overcome ‘Challenges’ Analyzing Rules’ EJ Effects

EPA officials are laying out a series of “challenges” they face in conducting environmental justice (EJ) analyses for specific rulemakings while calling for new guidance, research and other “needs” to help them better integrate such analyses into their future risk assessments and other work. The officials are slated to detail the challenges and needs to a new Science Advisory Board (SAB) panel that is holding its inaugural meeting March 21 to advise the agency on how to improve its draft...