Biden Admin Launches Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights

Biden Admin Launches Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Michael Regan speaks in Selma, Ala., on March 6, 2022. Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images
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The Biden administration on Saturday launched a new national office dubbed the “Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights” charged with addressing what some officials say are the disproportionate harms inflicted on low-income areas and communities of color by pollution and climate change.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an independent executive agency of the U.S. federal government, announced that the new office “will position the agency to better advance environmental justice, enforce civil rights laws in overburdened communities, and deliver new grants and technical assistance.”

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