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Environmental Justice Update: The Justice40 Initiative

Soon after taking office, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008, entitled, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” This is an unusually long and complex executive order and includes many provisions relating...more

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Applying Environmental Justice to the Regulated Community: What to Expect and How to Plan Accordingly

Though environmental justice (EJ) has been a cornerstone of the Biden Administration, it lacks federal enforcement laws. Executive orders and responses from federal agencies have shaped U.S. enforcement of EJ issues....more

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What’s All the Chatter About? Does the Supreme Court’s Harvard Opinion Really Endanger Environmental Justice Priorities?

As so many of my professional circles eagerly awaited the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (the Harvard Decision), they wondered what it might mean for the Biden administration’s...more

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New Executive Order: Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All

The White House has released the text of the President’s new Executive Order strengthening the Federal Government’s commitment to taking new actions to enhance and promote environmental justice. The Order was published in the...more

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Efforts to Regulate Plastic Pollution Likely to Increase in 2023

Actions by Congress and the Biden Administration indicate that regulation of plastic pollution and related activities will accelerate over the coming year. The Biden Administration is rapidly accelerating efforts to...more

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White House Releases Version 1.0 of Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool

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The Biden-Harris administration launched Version 1.0 of its Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. This tool is a key component of the administration’s environmental justice...more

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Environmental Justice in the Biden Administration

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The Biden Administration is seeking to advance “environmental justice” (EJ) through its policy and regulatory priorities in a way that no administration has before. Environmental justice - which seeks to address...more

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A New Agenda: Significant Changes in U.S. Environmental Policy Are Expected in 2021

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Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s inauguration on January 20, 2021 as the forty-sixth President of the United States could usher in a sweeping period of environmental regulatory changes vastly eclipsing those of his immediate predecessor...more

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