White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Final Recommendations: Justice40, Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, and Executive Order 12898 Revisions – May 21, 2021

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White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Final Recommendations: Justice40, Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, and Executive Order 12898 Revisions – May 21, 2021
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White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
Date
2024-05-21
Summary
On Jan. 27, 2021, President Biden established the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) via Executive Order 14008, titled “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,” to advise the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (WHEJIC) and the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality on an array of policies related to environmental justice. These policies include the Justice40 Initiative to deliver 40 percent of the overall benefits of climate investments to environmental justice communities, improvements to mapping the locations and characteristics of frontline communities, and changes to a 1994 executive order, “Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations.” On May 13, 2021, WHEJAC released an interim final report setting forth recommendations regarding the Biden administration’s environmental justice agenda, and it finalized those recommendations on May 21, 2021. WHEJAC’s recommendations provide insight into how the current administration may pursue its “whole-of-government” approach to environmental justice and climate change.
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