EPA Region 9 Chief Touts Federal Funding To Help California EJ Efforts

EPA Region 9 Administrator Martha Guzman is touting billions of new federal dollars in recently enacted funding laws as a boon to California’s efforts to implement environmental justice (EJ) programs and projects, including for cutting air emissions from mobile sources in the heavily polluted Los Angeles area. “I’m really excited to talk about a program that was just greatly expanded by Congress and the president under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) -- $3 [billion] to enhance our environmental justice grant...