EPA's Environment & Climate Justice program may have cracked the code to inclusively direct billions of federal funds to CBOs in marginalized communities.
, NRDC responded to the EPA’s Request for Information focusing on how to reduce barriers and increase equitable access to grants and technical assistance.
Furthermore, communities are commonly asked to show evidence of a health, economic, environmental disparity when applying for federal assistance. Yet not all communities are able to collect this level of data, despite their lived experience of pollutants or disproportionate harm. In fact, many lack access to the data that is collected about their communities by city, state, or federal agencies.
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