Environmental Justice Concerns in Air Permitting
Posted: February 22nd, 2023
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Office of Air and Radiation identified eight principles addressing environmental justice in Clean Air Act (CAA) permitting decisions in a December 22, 2022 Memorandum authored by Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator Joseph Goffman. U.S. […]
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Biden Administration Issues New Executive Order on Environmental Justice
Posted: February 21st, 2023
On February 16, 2023, the Biden Administration issued a new Executive Order (EO) “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” (A fact sheet summarizing the action is here.) The EO builds on EO 13985, […]
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Environmental Justice: Looking Ahead to 2023
Posted: January 12th, 2023
If 2021 was the year of planning discussions and a lot of talk related to environmental justice (EJ), 2022 was the year where those plans began to be put into action. In 2022, we saw documents on how to enforce […]
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Environmental Justice Tools Update: EJScreen 2.1 and CEJST 1.0
Posted: December 7th, 2022
U.S. EPA Releases EJScreen 2.1 On October 11, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) released a new version of their EJScreen tool, EJScreen 2.1. EJScreen is an environmental justice (EJ) screening and mapping tool that combines environmental and […]
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U.S. EPA OLEM September 2022 EJ Action Plan: What you need to know
Posted: November 3rd, 2022
In September 2022 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) published their Environmental Justice (EJ) Plan – EJ Action Plan: Building Up Environmental Justice in EPA’s Land Protection and Cleanup Programs. Back […]
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Louisiana Court Denies Air Permits for a Greenfield Plastics Complex on Clean Air Act and Environmental Justice Grounds: What are the implications?
Posted: October 13th, 2022
On September 12, 2022, a Louisiana court rejected 14 air permits for a new plastics manufacturing complex to be developed by Formosa Plastics Group (Formosa). The nearly $10 billion complex, known as the “Sunshine Project,” would include 10 chemical manufacturing […]
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ECHO and ECHO Notify: Do you know what data is out there?
Posted: October 12th, 2022
With different industries continuing to either expand their current facilities or build new facilities, public awareness and scrutiny has increased dramatically over the past few years. The public has started looking into different factors associated with facilities – including a […]
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Another National EJ Tool – Environmental Justice Index
Posted: September 16th, 2022
On August 10, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a nation-wide place-based Environmental Justice (EJ) tool: the Environmental Justice Index (EJI). This tool aims to quantify the impact of environmental burden on communities from the […]
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NJDEP Proposes Environmental Justice Rule
Posted: July 6th, 2022
New Jersey Department of Environmental Projection (NJDEP) has published a rule proposal for its Environmental Justice (EJ) program that would require facilities to address environmental and public health impacts they may have on overburdened communities (OBC) while obtaining a permit […]
Read articlePennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Releases New Draft Environmental Justice Policy
Posted: May 26th, 2022
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP or Department) Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) released a draft revision to the state’s Environmental Justice (EJ) Policy on March 12, 2022 (Document Number 012-0501-002). The document was open for public comments through […]
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