EPA Urged To Apply Cumulative Impacts Framework To Regulatory Decisions

Members of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) are urging EPA to prioritize its use of a cumulative impacts framework for determining civil rights law compliance to future regulatory and permitting decisions as the agency explores where and how it will apply the framework. “I just have heard loud and clear over so many years that getting environmental justice reforms into permitting is really the holy grail of reforming EPA and other regulatory agencies, so that’s where I would...