Biden EPA's Strategic Plan Framework Highlights Agency's Shift In Priorities

摘要

EPA is moving to institutionalize the Biden administration's priorities, including embedding new climate change and environmental justice (EJ) goals across the agency, by crafting a fiscal year 2022-2026 strategic plan that will drive budgeting and other decisions even as officials implement many of its approaches. A fact sheet on the strategic plan's framework that EPA shared with state and local government groups underscores the shift in emphasis from the Trump administration, including the addition of the new climate and EJ goals and the protection of children and other vulnerable populations, as well as plans to strengthen relationships with states and tribes compared to the existing plan's focus on providing "certainty" to states and the regulated community.