CEQ Pressed To Strengthen EJ Measures In NEPA Via Rule, Guidance

The White House is under pressure to strengthen environmental justice (EJ) considerations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) both as part of a broad rulemaking outlining how agencies conduct reviews and in separate guidance specifically focused on elevating EJ considerations in federal actions subject to the bedrock law. Environmentalists, congressional and state Democrats and others called for such considerations in recently filed comments on the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) proposed phase 1 NEPA rule, which seeks to revoke...