Agencies Take Small Steps To Increase Focus On Environmental Justice

摘要

Obama administration officials are taking some small steps toward increased consideration of environmental justice in federal decisions but are not yet taking the bigger steps activists say are needed to address historical discrimination resulting from environmental decisions in poor and minority communities.rnOver the past few weeks, EPA and other administration officials have made a series of public announcements indicating a stronger commitment to consider environmental justice issues in decision making. They include an EPA Region IX announcement to investigate its actions at a California landfill and a tour led by agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to highlight the impact of harmful environmental decisions on several Southern communities.