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Analysis By Michael Phillis | February 5, 2021, 7:13 PM EST President Joe Biden s promise to secure environmental justice is an ambitious effort to achieve long-sought equity for poor and minority communities that experts say could maybe, finally, put teeth behind the lip service that has been paid to the concept. The president made a multifaceted approach to environmental justice the concept of addressing the disproportionate environmental harms faced by largely poor, minority communities an integral part of his climate change strategy as outlined in an executive order signed about a week after he took office. That climate change order is intended to force the government to address the outsized burden disadvantaged communities have borne from pollution, often stemming from industrial facilities in those areas. It directs the federal government to step up enforcement of environmental laws, commits to steer clean energy investments toward ....