EPA’s Top EJ Advisor Quietly Departs, Raising Doubts On Key Rights Guide

Robin Morris Collins, who joined EPA as the agency’s top environmental justice (EJ) advisor in February 2022, has quietly left the agency, raising fears that her departure could further stall release of a long-awaited and already delayed draft guidance for how to consider cumulative impacts to ensure compliance with civil rights law, sources say. Peggy Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, tells Inside EPA , “I understand that Robin [Collins] was working on [the cumulative...