EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation’s guidance purports to provide best practices including early identification of potential environmental justice concerns and ongoing engagement with communities throughout the permitting process. There are 8 framework principles in the guidance.
How the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will factor environmental justice (EJ) principles into permitting decisions remained largely an open question throughout 2022. In the.
US environmental policy changes tend to occur at a glacial pace, particularly at the federal level. Frustrated with the pace of change, environmental non-governmental organizations.
Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York and one-time presidential hopeful, has announced a new nonprofit campaign this week called Beyond Petrochemicals: People Over Pollution, to help block the expansion of more than 120 proposed petrochemical industry projects in three states, Texas, Louisiana, and Ohio.