White House advisors to score agencies’ Justice40 progress

The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Committee (WHEJAC) is convening a working group to develop scorecards to evaluate EPA and other agencies’ progress in implementing its Justice40 initiative to ensure that at least 40 percent of the benefits from federal investments go to underserved and overburdened communities, a top official says. Cecelia Martinez, senior director of environmental justice at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), told an American Bar Association (ABA) event Oct. 15 that the scorecard development...