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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

  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
• Executive Order on Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders

  Executive Order 14048 by Joseph R. Biden Jr on Continuance or Reestablishment of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to Other Executive Orders (Sept 30, 2021)
• Jenni Wrightman Class Visit

  Affiliated Faculty, Professor Jennifer Wightman brought her Sustainable Systems class to the Tishman Center office for them to present posters they made highlighting their ideas for how to make the university more sustainable using information they learned on a tour of the University Center.
• Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad

  Executive Order 14008 by Joseph R. Biden Jr on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (January 27, 2021). The orderhas three overarching objectives 1) promote safe global temperature, 2) increase climate resilience, and 3) support financial a pathway toward low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.
• WHEJAC Amended Charter

  Charter for the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, outlining the committee's objectives, scope, duties, and administrative protocols. First approved March 2, 2023, amended January 5, 2024. The WHEJAC will provide independent advice and recommendations to the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and to the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (IAC) on how to increase the federal government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice. The WHEJAC will provide advice and recommendations about broad cross-cutting issues related, but not limited, to issues of environmental justice and pollution reduction, energy, climate change mitigation and resiliency, environmental health, and racial inequity.
• The Cost of Burning Trash

  The Cost of Burning Trash. Looking at the Human and Ecological Impacts of incineration in Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Pennslyvannia and Minnesota.
• U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators

  Report: U.S. Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators. This report examines three major economic vulnerabilities in the MSW incinerator industry. This report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, and Adrienne Perovich, MPA, with assistance from Amanda Sachs, Anna Yulsman, Brandon Jordan, Claudia Rot, and Kevin Capuno, Research Assistants at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School with support granted by Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) in collaboration with Ahmina Maxey. Contributors to the report include Doun Moon, Aiko Fukichi, Claire Arkin, Denise Patel, and Monica Wilson at GAIA as well as Destiny Watford at United Workers, KT Andresky at Breathe Free Detroit, and Whitney Amaya at East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice.
• Environmental Justice and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities for Alignment Gulf South and Midwest Case Studies

  Environmental Justice and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities for Alignment Gulf South and Midwest Case Studies. Report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, Ph.D., and Adrienne Perovich, MPA, with assistance from Anna Yulsman, Program Coordinator, as well as doctoral students, Molly Greenberg, and Jennifer Santos Ramirez, who serve as research assistants at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• Local Policies for Environmental Justice

  The report Local Policies for Environmental Justice, provides a comprehensive look at recent efforts in 23 cities, three counties and two utilities across the United States to address environmental injustices through innovative reforms of zoning,land use, and other local policies. It was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD, with assistance from Amanda Sachs and Claudia Rot, Research Assistants at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• False Solutions for Just Climate Mitigation and Clean Energy Policies

  False Solutions for Just Climate Mitigation and Clean Energy Policies draws on a review of policies and interviews with community leaders to explore how false solutions are present or emerging in the energy policies of three states, New Jersey, Delaware, and Minnesota. This report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, Ph.D. and Jennifer Ventrella, Ph.D. Student, who are part of the research team at the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• Understanding the Evolution of Cumulative Impacts: Definitions and Policies in the U.S

  This research is aimed at supporting EJ movement stakeholders and policymakers with a searchable tool of definitions, indicators, thresholds, and benefits in the various Cumulative Impact policies developed to date.This report was prepared by Ana Isabel Baptista, Ph.D., Adrienne Perovich, MPA, and research assistants Maria Fernanda Pulido-Velosa, Enrique Valencia, Marisa Valdez, and Jennifer Ventrella, who are part of the research team at Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School.
• Justice40 Recommendations

  This is an executive summary of the Justice40 recommendations that emerged from the convenings of environmental justice (EJ) advocates, academic experts and national environmental groups on December 2, 2020, and January 27, 2021 by The Equitable and Just National Climate Forum, the New School’s Tishman Environment and Design Center, and the Center for American Progress. This was to identify actions that the Biden administration should take to effectively implement the goal of targeting 40 percent of the overall climate investment benefit to disadvantaged communities.
• Climate Justice in Action: Communities working toward just transitions Report

  Climate Justice in Action: Communities working toward just transitions report prepared in collaboration with the Climate Justice Alliance. Sponsored by the Tishman Environment & Design Center at The New School.
• Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan: The Case of Energy Efficiency

  Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan: The Case of Energy Efficiency, report by Cecilia Martinez. Commissioned by the New School, with the intent that versions of them will be published by the William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review.
• Garbage, Power, and Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan Rule

  Garbage, Power, and Environmental Justice: The Clean Power Plan Rule. Report. by Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD and Kumar Kartik Amarnath, MS as a part of a Visiting Scholars Series on the Environmental Justice implications of the US EPA's Clean Power Plan rule.
• Testimony of Ana Isabel Baptista to House Select Committee

  Testimony of Ana Isabel Baptista, PhD to House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in 2020.
• Michelle DePass' testimony on the Clean Power Plan

  Michelle DePass' testimony around decision of the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan.
• Grassroots Environmental Justice Work and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities

  Article for the journal The Foundation Review. Grassroots Environmental Justice Work and Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities is written by Jennifer S. Ramirez, Ph.D., Ana I. Baptista, Ph.D., Molly Greenberg, M.S.W., Adrienne Perovich, M.P.A., and Anna Yulsman, M.A., The New School; Antonio Lopez, Ph.D., Chicago Frontlines Funding Initiative, and Andrew Rosenberg, Ph.D., Union of Concerned Scientists
• Landscape Assessment of EJ Movement Report

  Article for the journal: Environmental Justice. Appears in Volume 00, Number 00 and titled Landscape Assessment of the US Environmental Justice Movement: Transformative Strategies for Climate Justice
• Environmental Justice Implications of the Clean Power Plan Webinar Invite

  Flyer for funder webinar: Environmental Justice Implications of the Clean Power Plan. Part of a national Clean Power Plan Forum organized by the Tishman Environment and Design Center at The New School with participation from Building Equity & Alignment for Impact Initiative.
• Compilation of The Gulf Coast Fund Timeline and Photos

  Compilation of The Gulf Coast Fund Timeline and photos with some captions.