EJ Advocates Ask EPA For Partner Role In Selecting Air Monitoring Projects

Environmental justice (EJ) advocates are urging EPA to give them autonomy from state and municipal authorities in selecting community air monitoring projects that will receive agency funding, reflecting distrust between some groups and their local regulators over monitoring requirements for overburdened areas. Local “air districts have been the problem,” and prioritizing such local regulators with the new funding would really be a “disservice” to EJ communities, Beto Lugo-Martinez, executive director of the group Clean Air Now, which seeks to improve...