EPA's Waterhouse Approaches Lead, Cleanups With Strong Focus On EJ

摘要

Carlton Waterhouse, an environmental justice (EJ) expert who is currently EPA's top political appointee in the waste office, plans to apply his EJ knowledge throughout the waste program, citing as examples expected efforts on tackling lead contamination and ties between cleanup work and economic revival in overburdened communities.In an exclusive March 26 interview, Waterhouse, deputy assistant administrator of the Office of Land & Emergency Management (OLEM), told Inside EPA he plans to apply his knowledge of EJ "to everything that we're doing in the office." Consistent with the Biden administration's priorities, "environmental justice and climate change are central to the work that we do at EPA. I think that using that knowledge, it helps me think through all of the work that's going on in OLEM through the lenses of those two very important issues, and environmental justice in particular."