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How Va pipeline ruling may reshape environmental justice

How Va pipeline ruling may reshape environmental justice
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Limpert: DEQ ignores health threats

William Limpert The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is ignoring significant environmental, and public health threats to the residents of Chatham, Virginia by issuing a draft permit approval for the Lambert compressor station. To make matters worse, citizen comments at the upcoming July 7th hearing before the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board must now be made in person, and not virtually. DEQ has issued the draft permit approval without adequate consideration of a number of important issues. Significant negative health impacts from compressor station discharges are well documented. Nevertheless, there has been no public health assessment in the Chatham community, despite over 50 years of ongoing pollutant discharges from nearby Transco compressor stations. Citizens in this environmental justice community could already be experiencing significant negative health impacts. Nevertheless, DEQ is burdening them with more pollution from Lambert without c

Judiciary Committee Splits on Controversial Justice Department Nominee

Judiciary Committee Splits on Controversial Justice Department Nominee Kristen Clarke s confirmation could depend on senators she s criticized Kristen Clarke / Getty Images Kevin Daley • May 13, 2021 11:20 am The Senate Judiciary Committee split evenly along party lines Thursday in a vote to advance the hotly contested nomination of Kristen Clarke for civil rights chief at the Department of Justice. The indecisive result is not a significant setback for Clarke, whose anti-Semitic past and race-driven approach to litigation has made her a top target for Republican lawmakers. Senate Democrats can still advance her nomination out of committee by holding a special procedural vote, called a discharge motion.

Determining Disparate Impacts in Environmental Justice Communities: Does Friends of Buckingham v State Air Pollution Control Board Provide the Roadmap? | (ACOEL) | American College of Environmental Lawyers

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these areas are addressed and not further exacerbated. With Executive Order 14008, the Biden administration adopted measures to further Environmental Justice nationwide. This included updating the Clinton era Executive Order 12988 (February 11, 1994), enhancing the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council, creating a White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, and directing federal agencies to undertake specific EJ initiatives.

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