"Michael Regan vowed to put environmental justice at the center of the EPA’s decision making during his first formal public appearance as the administrator of the agency.
“Every person in the United States has the right to clean air, clean water and a healthier life no matter how much money they have in their pockets, the color of their skin or their zip code,” Regan said in an address to a conference of state regulators. “Yet too many Black, indigenous, Latinx and other people of color bear the highest burden of pollution.”
Regan’s efforts comes as President Joe Biden promises government-wide attention to combating environmental inequity. The just-enacted stimulus law included some $50 million in funding for state and local environmental justice work. Biden also created an interagency task force focused on the topic and signaled he wants the Justice Department to increase enforcement against polluters. On Monday, the administration named former solicitor general of the District of Columbia Todd Kim to be Justice’s prosecutor focusing on environmental issues."
Jennifer A Dlouhy and Stephen Lee report for Bloomberg March 16, 2021.
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