IG Report Cites Key Challenges To EPA Enforcement Of Equity Guidelines

摘要

EPA's acting Inspector General (IG) in a new report finds no agency wrongdoing in a number of environmental justice complaints filed against EPA Region IV, while concluding that enforcing federal equity guidelines and combating discrimination is "difficult" because of limited criminal and civil law on environmental justice issues.rnThe June 14 report - long sought by equity advocates - may complicate EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's push to make equity a key factor in policy decisions, because the IG concludes that enforcement of equity guidelines is limited by pertinent criminal statutes and civil rights legislation that "have not been fully developed." The report is available on InsideEPA.com. See page 2 for details.