State Groups Question EPA Plan To Weigh Environmental Justice In Permits

摘要

State officials are questioning EPA's draft plan to incorporate environmental justice into agency permitting programs and other actions, noting uncertainty in how to define an environmental justice community and doubting EPA's ability to reach its goal of addressing cumulative impacts on equity communities from multiple pollution sources. EPA took comment through April 29 on its draft "Plan EJ 2014," designed as a "roadmap" to help the agency integrate environmental justice into its programs, policies and activities, according to the agency's website for the plan. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has long made a top priority of reducing pollution and associated adverse health impacts in poor, often-minority environmental justice communities located near industrial facilities.