EPA Officials Tout Range Of EJ Actions In Response To NEJAC Concerns

EPA political leaders are citing a wide array of ongoing and planned actions that they say will respond to a host of unfulfilled recommendations sought by the agency’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), a body that was largely sidelined by the Trump administration but is now central to President Joe Biden’s equity agenda. Speaking on a virtual meeting of the NEJAC Aug. 18, a top agency leader as well as key program office officials lined up to pledge their...