President Biden on Friday signed an executive order to create the White House Office of Environmental Justice. Aides said the idea is to ensure that poverty, race, and ethnic.
President Biden on Friday signed an executive order to create the White House Office of Environmental Justice. Aides said the idea is to ensure that poverty, race, and ethnic status do not lead to worse exposure to pollution and environmental harm. “Environmental justice will be the mission of the entire government woven directly into how we work with state, local, tribal and territorial governments,” Biden said in a Rose Garden ceremony. The order tells executive branch agencies to use data and scientific research to understand how pollution hurts people’s health, so that work can be done to limit any damage.
