President Biden signed an executive order aimed at ensuring federal decisions consider 'environmental justice,' which addresses higher pollution burdens often faced by communities of color and people living in poverty.
President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 21. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
President Biden signed an executive order Friday aimed at ensuring federal decisions consider "environmental justice," which addressesdirects agencies to identify and address data and science gaps to help better understand cumulative environmental impacts.
This effort will be coordinated via a new branch within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, which is headed by a cabinet-level official.Creating a new Office of Environmental Justice within the existing White House Council on Environmental Quality. Calling on agencies across the government to conduct new assessments of their ongoing environmental justice efforts.How, if at all, the burst of new efforts will affect specific decisions, given that the Biden administration has already sought to stitch environmental justice into the fabric of federal policymaking.
Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect that Biden has signed the order and include additional details about it.
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