Eliminate stand-alone Environmental Justice office; pause EJ and Title VI actions
Mandate returns environmental justice to the Administrator’s office, eliminates the stand-alone EJ/External Civil Rights office, and separately calls for pausing/reviewing ongoing EJ and Title VI actions.
Mandate
Mandate Ch. 13 (EPA) — Reorganization / EJ: return environmental justice function to Administrator’s Office, eliminating stand-alone Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights; Administration should pause and review all ongoing EJ and Title VI actions.
Undo plan
1) Reinstate dedicated EJ capacity with measurable pollution-reduction goals.
2) Continue Title VI investigations of intentional discrimination and unjustified disparate impacts per governing law.
3) Publish transparent EJ screening tools with peer review.
4) Separate civil rights enforcement from media-office capture.
5) Verify: facility inspections in overburdened communities and case outcomes.