Virginia DEQ announces new environmental justice office
Published Friday, Apr. 23, 2021, 12:05 am
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The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality welcomed Renee Hoyos as director of the agency’s new environmental justice office on Thursday.
Hoyos, who has 14 years of experience as an environmental justice advocacy leader in Tennessee, will direct efforts on the continued development – with community and stakeholder input – of the environmental justice program at DEQ.
Prior to joining DEQ, Hoyos was the executive director of the Tennessee Clean Water Network, an organization focused on identifying, preventing and remedying water pollution through civic engagement, partnership building, and advancing water policy. Before that she served in Governor Gray Davis’s Administration