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Join EJSCREEN: The Environmental Litigation Tool of the Future? President Joseph Biden Jr. has committed to making major improvements in environmental justice communities (EJCs) by pledging to invest 40% of his $2 trillion clean energy plan into these communities. petrmalinak / Shutterstock.com The question for industry is what this will look like and how it will impact business. A judicial order in a Louisiana district court case late last year could provide some clues. The EPA’s EJSCREEN mapping tool, used to identify pollution risks in minority and low-income communities, provided pivotal information for the judge. In November 2020, Rise St. James et. al. v. Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) was heard before Judge Trudy White in the 19th Judicial District Court of Louisiana. The hearing resulted in the judge ordering the LDEQ back to the drawing board to conduct stronger analysis on environmental justice impacts when issuing air permits for Formosa Pla

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