Posted on 05/05/2022 9:26:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced a new office at the Justice Department that will focus exclusively on environmental justice.
The office, which will prioritize low-income communities that have been hit hard by pollution and contamination, was launched in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency.
“The Office of Environmental Justice will serve as the central hub for our efforts to advance our comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy,” Garland said at a news conference alongside EPA Administrator Michael Regan.
“Although violations of our environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change,” Garland added.
The Biden administration has asked Congress for $1.4 million for the office. Shalanda Young, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, recently told lawmakers that the Justice Department "absolutely needs the tools to make sure all Americans are treated equally under the law even when there are environmental issues."
Garland said Thursday that the Office of Environmental Justice will be headed by Cynthia Ferguson, a Justice Department veteran from the department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
After environmental criminal referrals dipped during the Trump administration, President Joe Biden issued an executive order in January 2021 directing the attorney general to “ensure comprehensive attention to environmental justice throughout the Department of Justice.”
In November, the Justice Department opened a first-of-its-kind environmental justice investigation into the wastewater disposal and infectious disease programs of the Alabama Public Health Department and the Lowndes County Health Department to determine whether they are operating the programs in a manner that discriminates against Black residents. The majority-Black county lacks a centralized sewage system, and at least 40 percent of homes have inadequate or no sewage systems.
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More Democrat insanity.
Another FedGov shakedown hustle.
A politicized garbage office. Another consequence of stolen elections.
Another waste of time and money!
Let’s count the additions to government from the Biden Administration so far:
Homeland Security Office of Disinformation
Justice Department Office of Environmental Justice
[ Add your here ]
They’re going to arrest Leonardo de Crapio and Algore?
Well, that’s a start.
Doggie Park Justice!
I wish we could launch Merrick Garland. He’s an idiot and a liar.
The US Dept of Agriculture has a Farm Bill budgeted every five years. The current annual cost of the Farm Bill is $428 billion, of which 80% is allocated for Nutrition and 95% of the Nutrition portion goes to SNAP (also known as Food Stamps). This is how the Government hides their giveaway programs…..the Farmers don’t receive relief through the Farm Bill, while the “poor” urban dwellers get their taxpayer funded subsidy. So in this case the Environmental Protection Agency will spend millions on “environmental justice” which is another way of saying the “poor” urban dwellers will be compensated for past wrongs. Eventually, the plan is to use every government agency as a vehicle to take from the haves and give to the have nots. Call it Socialism, call it Communism, but don’t call it America as we once knew it!
The Supremes are being threatened, he focuses on the environment.
Waste of time and money by an idiot.
So glad this clown isn’t on SCOTUS
“Environmental justice.” What utter gobbledy-gook. How did so many people get so foolish so fast. This nonsense is coming from the mouth of an actual appointed cabinet members of the United State of America. This country is going down the drain rapidly. A generation ago, a phrase so lacking in reality would have been part of a Monty Python skit. Environmental justice requires that Mr. Garland wear a garland. It’s the least he can do.
Last time I checked we were all different colors and races in our ‘hood... breathing same air, drinking same water, using same sewage system!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are swimming in a cesspool of lies so fetid it’s impossible to know what’s true.
Clyde Lewis
EVIL and PSTUPID is our governemnt now!
How is it that they just create this because they want to ?
Doesn’t congress have a role in the creation of a New Department ?
seems there are those who are playing by the rules and those who are not, those who are have to re think their plan
“We are swimming in a cesspool of lies so fetid it’s impossible to know what’s true.”
Actually the track record of the Democrat Party and the Biden administration is a record of all lies, so it’s actually not impossible to know what’s true. We all have a mountain of experience and evidence that it comes from the Democrat Party or the Biden administration, it’s a lie.
Clyde Lewis
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