EPA Officials Tout Staffing, Hiring Plans For EJ, Civil Rights Office

EPA officials are touting their plans to bolster environmental justice (EJ) and external civil rights staffing, along with ambitious hiring plans, to fill the new program office launched last month, saying that while hiring notices have yet to be posted, when the agency starts filling these roles they will look to advocates as potential employees. “We are going to be moving to have more than 200 people [at] EPA dedicated to environmental justice and civil rights and conflict prevention,” Marianne...