On Feb. 23, 2023, the Biden administration announced the availability of $550 million to expedite investments through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new Environmental Justice ...

The Biden Administration has made environmental justice and equity a key pillar of its environmental policy, directing EPA to incorporate this concept at all levels of its decision-making process ...

The group NH Healthy Climate successfully applied for a grant to work on rural flood mitigation, but the EPA is withholding funding for the program.

More than 160 environmental justice employees at the EPA are impacted nationwide, according to an internal EPA email obtained by CNN and confirmed by employees who were on the agency call and have ...

For many years, environmental justice work at EPA had been housed in the small Office of Environmental Justice, staffed by a few dozen people. That office, under a different name, was established in ...

A coalition of nonprofits, tribes, and local governments is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the ...

July 20, 2022 — Plopping down on a plush sofa next to his ailing mother, Dennis Mitchell sighs and shakes his head when asked about a health-care clinic near his parents’ house in Port Arthur, Texas.

More than 160 environmental justice employees at the EPA are impacted nationwide, according to an internal EPA email obtained by CNN and confirmed by employees who were on the agency call and have ...

So, environmental justice is an ideology that infuses concerns about identity—especially race—into the preexisting ideology of environmentalism, which is empowered in the case of the EPA by ...

In 2022, EPA merged the Office of Environmental Justice with two others to create OEJECR. By 2024, it had increased staff both at EPA headquarters and in EPA's 10 regional offices across the ...