EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Compliance Office Issues Draft National Program Guidance
Posted by [email protected] on Jun. 15, 2022
June 8, 2022 | J. Michael Showalter
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Environmental Justice (OEJ) and External Civil Rights Compliance Office issued draft guidance (Draft Guidance) on June 2, 2022, outlining how EPA intends to integrate environmental justice (EJ) and civil rights concerns into EPA’s “fabric of work.” EPA lists specific efforts it intends to undertake to promote EJ and civil rights at the federal, tribal, state, local, and community level; to embed EJ and civil rights in “all the Agency’s work to maximize benefits and minimize impacts to underserved and overburdened communities;” and to strengthen enforcement of and compliance with civil rights laws “to address the legacy of pollution in overburdened communities.”
