BOSC Wrestles With Environmental Justice In Water Research Advice

June 22, 2021
EPA advisors are wrestling with how to respond to agency requests for recommendations on drinking water and stormwater management research that consider effects on disadvantaged communities, highlighting challenges to the Biden administration’s push to engrain environmental justice (EJ) considerations in all aspects of agency action. During a June 22 virtual meeting of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) subcommittee on safe and sustainable water resources research, panel member Elizabeth Fassman-Beck, associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, suggested that it...


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