States, Advocates Fault EPA For Lack Of Detail In Draft Equity Framework

摘要

States and dozens of environmental, public health and community groups are criticizing EPA's draft framework on boosting the role of environmental justice (EJ) in agency decisionmaking, faulting its lack of detail on how to achieve the framework's major goals - such as not issuing guidance for states on how to address EJ in permits. In response to the concerns, EPA says that it agrees the plan needs to include specific details on its "action agenda" but does not elaborate on how the agency intends to achieve the framework's overall goals.