WHEJAC Floats Suite Of Steps To Implement Biden EJ Executive Order

October 17, 2024
White House advisors are pressing the Biden administration to take a series of substantive steps to implement a 2023 executive order on environmental justice (EJ), including offering health services to communities harmed by pollution, offering to help people relocate from those areas and giving them greater ability to reject federal projects. The recommendations are included in an Oct. 4 report from the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) in response to President Joe Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14096 that...


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