ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PANEL URGES EPA TO REVISE DISASTER RESPONSES

An advisory panel to EPA on environmental justice issues stemming from the Gulf Coast hurricanes is calling for the agency to revise its disaster response procedures to address the needs of vulnerable populations, which could involve changes to the federal National Response Plan and Superfund National Contingency Plan (NCP), according to draft recommendations obtained by Inside EPA. The recommendations, drafted by a work group of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (NEJAC), come as environmentalists are considering lawsuits over the...