Mar 11, 2025 · The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights (OEJECR) provides leadership on EPA’s environmental justice and external civil rights initiatives. OEJECR coordinates implementation of those initiatives across the agency, and across our partnerships with other federal agencies and coregulators in state, tribal, and local ...

Jan 11, 2021 · Learn about the EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and read the Annual Environmental Justice Reports to learn how the Agency’s programs and resources serve vulnerable communities across the country.

8 hours ago · WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - The Environmental Protection Agency sent termination notices on Tuesday to staff who work on environmental justice programs at its headquarters and across regional ...

Mar 12, 2025 · WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will terminate the Biden-Harris Administration’s Environmental Justice and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion arms of the agency. These organizational improvements, in line with Presidential Executive Orders, ensure the EPA is best positioned to meet its core mission of …

Mar 11, 2025 · This latest move to dismantle the EPA’s lone environmental justice office signals the low priority given to these frontline and fenceline communities, at a time when climate change solutions are urgently needed. It means fewer investigations into environmental discrimination, fewer resources for communities battered by pollution and other ...

environmental justicegoals, objectives,priority actions,and metricsinthis Environmental Justice StrategicPlan (EJ Strategic Plan). Executive Order (EO) 14096 establishes the first Federal government definition for “environmental justice.”EO 14096 also directsall federalagencies in the executive branchto

Read more about how EPA's EJ 2020 Action Agenda will help EPA advance environmental justice through its programs, policies and activities, and support our cross-agency strategy on making a visible difference in environmentally overburdened, …

EPA’s Environmental Justice Reference Guides provide tips to help CERCLA Superfund project team members apply guidance, tools and strategies to identify and address concerns related to environmental justice.

23 hours ago · The EPA will start a reduction in force among its remaining environmental justice staff on July 31, according to an internal memo dated Monday and reviewed by Bloomberg Law. The letter from Travis Voyles, assistant deputy administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, marks the second official attempt to purge environmental justice ...

Sep 24, 2022 · EPA created the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights Office by merging three existing programs at the agency: the Office of Environmental Justice, External Civil Rights Compliance Office, and Conflict Prevention and Resolution Center.