EPA Environmental Justice Adviser Moves to White House Council

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A veteran EPA official who has overseen an agency panel on combating environmental injustice is taking on a new role in President Joe Biden’s new White House environmental justicecouncil.Karen Martin is leaving as EPA’s coordinator to the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council-formally, a designated federal official to the council-for a similar role in the WhiteHouse Environmental Justice Advisory Council that Biden created under a January executive order.1. Martin has been informally working to coordinate both councils for the last several months but will now focus full time on the White House council, said Matthew Tejada, director ofEPA’s Office of Environmental Justice, who announced the moves at Thursday’s national environmental justice council meeting.2. The new White House council is to advise the president on the all-of-government approach he has pledged to address environmental injustice, including strengthening a broadenvironmental justice executive order that has essentially gone untouched since President Clinton issued it in the early 1990s.