EPA Seeks 'Ambitious Goals' In New Environmental Justice 2020 Agenda

EPA is crafting a followup plan with "ambitious goals" for its environmental justice (EJ) efforts in the wake of the agency's Plan EJ2014, which outlined a series of guidance documents and other tools intended to integrate EJ considerations more fully into agency actions, though some key EJ2014 commitments remain incomplete. The draft EJ2020 plan "builds on the foundation established through plan EJ2014," Charles Lee, EPA's deputy associate assistant administrator for EJ, said during a May 7 webinar on the draft...