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• Report: White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Recommendations - Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) Workgroup

  This document contains recommendations from the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) to the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regarding the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST). It acknowledges CEQ’s responsiveness to previous feedback and reaffirms the Tool’s purpose: identifying underserved and overburdened communities to guide Justice40 investments. The recommendations support the continued refinement of CEJST ahead of its Version 2.0 release and future updates as new data becomes available. WHEJAC acknowledges the efforts of the CEJST Workgroup in preparing this report such as co-chairs Dr. Rachel Morello-Frosch and Dr. Nicky Sheats, along with Jade Begay, Jerome Foster II, Juan Parras, LaTricea Adams, Michele Roberts, Tom Cormons, and Vi Waghiyi. Dr. Yukyan Lam, Research Director at the Tishman Center provided comments on the recommendations.
• Report: WHEJAC Recommendations on Climate Planning, Preparedness, Response, Recovery and Impacts

  The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) submitted its final report to White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory and President Joseph R. Biden, offering recommendations on a whole-of-government approach to environmental justice, including climate change, disaster preparedness, and community planning. WHEJAC emphasized that their recommendations are a starting point for deeper, transformational change and rejected the overuse of the term "resilience," noting that it can be used to ignore communities’ needs. The report underscores the urgent and unequal impacts of climate change, especially on communities already burdened by poverty, pollution, and systemic inequality. Tishman Center prepared a literature review as preparation for the report.
• WHEJAC Meeting Notes and Agendas 2024

  Summaries of public WHEJAC meetings in 2024. The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) held several public virtual meetings in 2024 to address environmental justice issues and offer recommendations to the Biden-Harris administration.
• WHEJAC Meeting Notes and Agendas 2023

  Summaries of public WHEJAC meetings in 2023. The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) held several public virtual meetings in 2023 to address environmental justice issues and offer recommendations to the Biden-Harris administration.
• WHEJAC Meeting Notes and Agendas 2022

  Summaries of public WHEJAC meetings in 2022. The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) held several public virtual meetings in 2022 to address environmental justice issues and offer recommendations to the Biden-Harris administration.
• WHEJAC Meeting Notes and Agendas 2021

  Summaries of public WHEJAC meetings in 2021. The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) held several public virtual meetings in 2021 to address environmental justice issues and offer recommendations to the Biden-Harris administration.
• Response to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council's (WHEJAC) Phase One Scorecard Recommendations Report

  This letter by US Environmental Protection Agency's Associate Administrator Timothy DelMonico, transmits the White House Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) official response to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s (WHEJAC) Phase One Scorecard Recommendations Report. The report, submitted in March 2022, offers guidance for developing the Environmental Justice Scorecard as directed by Executive Order 14008. CEQ's response fulfills requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which mandates a report to Congress within one year of receiving advisory committee recommendations. The EPA is submitting CEQ’s response in its role as the President’s delegate under FACA for the WHEJAC.
• WHEJAC Carbon Management Recommendations

  Letter from WHEJAC co-chairs Richard Moore and Peggy M. Shepard, on behalf of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) to provide recommendations on carbon management strategies must not harm disadvantaged communities. Its recommendations prioritize human rights, health, and inclusive decision-making. WHEJAC stresses that environmental justice is essential to effective climate action and rejects any federal actions that create new injustice.
• Executive Order 14096 Recommendations

  WHEJAC submitted recommendations to support implementation of Executive Order 14096, urging federal agencies to fully integrate environmental justice into all operations. The recommendations emphasize transparency, community engagement, and detailed reporting on environmental burdens and Justice40 outcomes. WHEJAC requests a response at its October 2024 public meeting.
• White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (IAC): Environmental Justice Officer Contact List

  Executive Order 14008 on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad specifies that each agency serving the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (IAC) shall designate “a designated official within the agency to be an Environmental Justice Officer. This document provides a the contact information for designated Environmental Justice Officer.
• Justice40 Initiative Implementation Phase 1 Recommendations

  Letter from WHEJAC co-chairs Richard Moore and Peggy M. Shepard, on behalf of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) to announce the second report on the Justice40 Initiative to Chair Mallory and the Environmental Justice Interagency Council. The report provides agency-specific and cross-cutting recommendations to help ensure that 40% of federal investment benefits reach disadvantaged communities.
• Video: 2021_06_03_Faculty Grant Presentations

  2020-2021 Faculty Grant Presentations. Presenters include “Mindfulness in Sacred Ecologies” by Latha Poonamallee, Milano, Associate Professor & Cotter Christian, Parsons, Assistant Professor and “Dream Garden in the Anthropocene” by Beau Rhee, Parsons, Lecturer.
• Student Work: Who Owns the World

  2020-2021 Tishman Center Student Awards for Environmental Justice and Equity grantee Devin Hentz's contribution for the 2021 Student Award Celebration: Virtual Event. Folder includes video overview and images of their project: KAN MO MOM ÀDDUNA? (WHO OWNS THE WORLD?), a visual research platform that interrogates clothing, cultures, desire, & power such as images of cotton production in Dakar, Senegal.
• Photos: University of Michigan Tishman Center Visit

  Group posing; staff from the University of Michigan Tishman Center and The New School Tishman Center.
• Event: February 2017 Affiliated Faculty Meeting

  Photos of the 2017 Affiliated Faculty Meeting on February 14th. Photos of people engaged in conversation with each other.
• Event: September 2016 Affiliated Faculty Meeting

  Fall 2016 Affiliated Faculty Meeting. Photos of group engaged in conversation with each other.
• Event: #ClimateCitizen Hackathon

  Photos of 2016 Hackathon. People around labtops, in conversation with each other.
• Student Work: Student Award Project: A Luta Continua

  2020-2021 Tishman Center Student Awards for Environmental Justice and Equity grantee Ashley Lituma's contribution for the 2021 Student Award Celebration. Folder includes introduction video, flyer images and document with links of A Luta Continua Dialogues episodes and interviews on facebook and youtube in document: Ashley Lituma_A Luta Continua
• Student Work: Student Award Project: Slow Movement

  2020-2021 Tishman Center Student Awards for Environmental Justice and Equity grantee Bergamot Quarte's (made up of Ledah Finck, Sarah Thomas, Amy Tan and Irene Han from Mannes School of Music)'s contribution for the 2021 Student Award Celebration. Folder includes video overview and images of their project: Slow Movement: a musical exploration of tempo in the fashion industry.
• WHEJAC Final Report Submission Letter on Justice40, CEJST, and EO 12898 Revisions

  Letter from WHEJAC co-chairs Richard Moore and Peggy M. Shepard on behalf of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) to chair of the Council on Environmental Quality Brenda Mallory and President Joseph R. Biden, notifying submission of its final report and offering recommendations on the Justice40 Initiative, the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, and revisions to Executive Order 12898. The letter urges immediate and accountable implementation of Justice40 to ensure at least 40% of federal benefits reach frontline communities, with calls for actions like phasing out fossil fuels by 2030, ensuring no harm from investments, and expanding agency compliance. WHEJAC also requests regular engagement with federal bodies and plans to submit further recommendations on key environmental justice initiatives.
• White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Final Recommendations: Justice40, Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, and Executive Order 12898 Revisions – May 21, 2021

  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.
• Response by the White House Council on Environmental Quality to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Final Recommendations:

  Response by the White House Council on Environmental Quality to the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Final Recommendations: Justice40, Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, and Executive Order 12898 Revisions That Were Submitted on May 21, 2021
• Workgroups and Charges of White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC)

  Workgroups and Charges of White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) as of May 2024. WHEJAC workgroups were established to develop draft recommendations to assist the WHEJAC in providing independent advice and recommendations to the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and to the White House Interagency Council on Environmental Justice (IAC) on how to increase the Federal Government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice. The workgroups were created in support of the President’s Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.
• White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Contact List

  White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Contact List as of April 2024. Includes contact information of White House Council on Environmental Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Chairs
• WHEJAC Membership Biographies

  Biographies of WHEJAC members as of 2023