Environmental Justice

Environmental Protection Agency Building

EPA gets long to-do list from its inspector general

Climate change and what is known as environmental justice top the list of management challenges for the Environmental Protection Agency this year. No surprise…

Agency Oversight

New HHS challenge prize program seeks to improve local environmental justice

Management

FILE - A child rinses a toothbrush at a shelter in San Francisco, Calif., June 18, 2019. Tap water is subject to a rash of government standards but people in many communities across the U.S. remain exposed to unhealthy drinking water. A Supreme Court decision on EPA regulation of carbon emissions from power plants this past week could make it harder to expand federal regulation in other areas. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

Water water everywhere: EPA using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to make it safer to drink

Workforce

Two agencies are teaming up in the name of environmental justice

Federal Newscast

How the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is shifting its enforcement strategy

Management

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Anything can have DEIA if agencies look hard enough

Federal Report

Trash and cloudy water sit at the main entry of Arrowhead Landfill Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, in Uniontown, Ala. Disadvantaged communities in America are disproportionately affected by pollution from industry or waste disposal, but their complaints have few outlets and often reach a dead end. Hundreds of discrimination claims sent to the Environmental Protection Agency’s civil rights office since the mid-90s have only once resulted in a formal finding of discrimination. And some cases languished for years — or decades.(AP Photo/Vasha Hunt)

Agencies are told to consider environmental justice in policy decisions

Federal Newscast