Three open questions about Biden’s new environmental justice tool

Image credit: Grist / Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images. Article by Emily Pontecorvo & Naveena Sadasivam. Grist – June 9, 2022.

In February, the White House Council on Environmental Quality released the beta version of a screening tool meant to identify “disadvantaged” communities across the U.S. The release was part of the Biden administration’s Justice40 initiative, which aims to send at least 40 percent of the benefits of government spending on infrastructure, clean energy, and other climate-related programs to these underserved communities. […]

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