The head of the federal Council on Environmental Quality spoke this week about the Biden administration’s environmental goals. Brenda Mallory, a native of Waterbury, Connecticut, said America has for decades failed to deliver on its basic obligation to provide clean air and water to everyone.
“The burdens associated with climate change, harmful pollution and decades of disinvestment in American infrastructure have disproportionately fallen on low-income communities and communities of color,” Mallory said.
Mallory said Black people are almost three times more likely to die from asthma-related causes than white people.
Mallory, who spoke Tuesday during an online gathering of the Business Forward Foundation, said President Joe Biden would like to expand the country’s infrastructure for electric vehicles to help clean up our country’s air.
Published: Monday, June 28, 2021
Brenda Mallory. Photo credit: Francis Chung/E&E News
Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory. Francis Chung/E&E News
The White House Council on Environmental Quality is postponing compliance with the Trump administration s rules to speed up National Environmental Policy Act reviews.
In a press release issued today, CEQ said federal agencies have an additional two years to comply with procedural requirements mandated by 2020 NEPA regulations.
That means agencies like the departments of the Interior and Energy have until September 2023 to propose revisions, according to a notice that will be published tomorrow in the
Federal Register.
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