Early EPA Steps Set High Bar For Environmental Justice, Critics Say

摘要

Early steps by the Obama EPA to incorporate environmental justice into agency decisionmaking set a high bar for when the agency will take actions to limit disproportionate impacts to poor and minority communities, critics say, despite a high-profile commitment to the issue by Administrator Lisa Jackson.rnThe critics are calling for the agency to develop guidance for how and when to conduct environmental justice analyses, to realistically define a true disparate impact and for top managers to better communicate the agency's equity positions to on-the-ground permit writers.