One step forward is the Environmental Justice for All Act, which addresses disproportionate effects. Presented by Deloitte
adding environmental justice to the mission of each federal agency by instructing them to create programs, policies, and activities to address the disproportionate health, environmental, economic, and climate effects on disadvantaged communities.
"We have to be real and understand that what is promised may not hit the ground into those disadvantaged pockets unless we're strategic," he said. which would create several environmental-justice requirements, advisory groups, and programs to address the disproportionate health and environmental effects on communities of color, low-income groups, and indigenous communities. McEachin said the bill was written by the people directly affected by these problems.
Many of these communities have been affected by environmental justice for decades, and to prioritize the groups going forward, Roberts said,"We need to make sure when we talk about green energy that it is clean, equitable, and just — all three words, not just one."
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