/PRNewswire/ Today, the HBCU Green Fund s BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) Climate Scholars Project working in collaboration with the Land Peace.
Highlights
The Biden Administration in its first 90 days has clearly and
dramatically articulated a commitment to the issue of environmental
justice.
The actions of the White House and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) are significant in their own right, and
point to programmatic, regulatory and budget initiatives likely to
emerge over the coming months and years.
This Holland & Knight alert is the first of several status
updates on environmental justice (EJ) in the Biden Administration.
It identifies early actions of the administration that are not only
significant in their own right but point to programmatic,
regulatory and budget initiatives likely to emerge over the coming
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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.
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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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Last week’s “Climate Day” actions grabbed headlines primarily for how they respond to climate risk through increased federal coordination. Equally important may be the actions the Biden administration took that day to combat environmental injustice, in large part by expanding the role of science and equity considerations in rulemaking and other agency actions. This change in focus will color how agencies regulate and enforce regulations concerning air emissions as well as other media, including emerging chemicals of concern, like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). First, the Executive Order on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the President’s Memorandum on Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking re-committed the federal government to science-based decision-making through the establishment of a Council of Advisors on Scienc
UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY AND NATIONAL SECURITY
Sec. 101
This section states the policy that climate considerations will be an essential element of U.S. foreign policy and national security.
Foreign Policy
Sec. 102
- Announces the U.S. will host a Leaders’ Climate Summit, contribute to the United Nations COP26, and reconvene the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate
- Climate considerations will be prioritized in international forums (i.e., G7 and G20)
- Directs the development of the U.S. contribution under the Paris Agreement in advance of the Leaders’ Climate Summit
- Directs the development of a climate finance plan to assist developing countries to reduce emissions