Posted on 11/18/2022 6:47:39 AM PST by dynachrome
The Justice Department today announced the appointment of Cynthia M. Ferguson as the Director of the Office of Environmental Justice, where she will lead efforts to engage all Justice Department bureaus, components and offices in the collective pursuit of environmental justice.
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the first-ever Office of Environmental Justice last May along with a series of measures as part of a comprehensive enforcement strategy to secure environmental justice for all Americans.
“Communities of color, indigenous communities and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change,” said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. “Cynthia Ferguson has demonstrated the exact kind of dedication and vision that we need to address these longstanding inequities and I look forward to her leadership of this new office.”
“Cynthia Ferguson’s more than two decades of service to the Environment and Natural Resources Division and the cause of justice make her especially prepared to take on this role,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division. “Cynthia will play a critical role in the department’s efforts to hear and to address the concerns of American communities who have borne a disproportionate burden from pollution for far too long.”
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Just one more tool to harass any perceived enemy.
No pictures available yet, but to be safe, get eye bleach
Ms. Ferguson earned her undergraduate degree, a BS in Mechanical Engineering, from Carnegie‐Mellon University and her law degree from the Chicago‐Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Just the premise of this should have someone being brought up on some sort of charges!
To gop house. Defund that bit@&...
And the government continues to grow. And grow. And grow.
There’s no political solution to communism once it takes hold.
OK. But, before we get started, PLEASE PROVIDE a clear, succinct, and legally practicable definition of “environmental Justice.”
If “environmental justice” is anything like “social justice”, then neither the environment nor justice shall be served.
It is just another scheme to put the affected parties on defensive right away, guilty until the case against them cannot be proven, but only after huge sums of legal fees changes hands.
A plea deal, of course, concludes the case immediately, whenever the fines and all costs are paid.
Heads we win, tails you lose.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.”
+1. Thanks for reminding us that tyranny always wears the same face in the end.
What exactly is environmental Justice? I presume that this new agency is just anotherfederal hammer to severely restrict and or close down farming, meat, food and fuel processing plants and what ever else to make life harder but easier to control. Life for the average American will become unaffordable, much worse than it is today.
Atlas Shrugged
The “office” is Un-constitutional and redundant to the EPA.
There is no need for this office or a secondary branch of investigation beyond what already exists.
Just more unelected government bureaucrats, what could go wrong?
Waste of time and money.
Dams evil, water too deep to trap incoming fish, so make shallow once more.
When all who are not landed and titled, live in squalor, we shall finally have justice.
The feudal system is back, and guess who is on the bottom? The same people as always.
Salary growth, however, was quite impressive.
There is no such thing as “enviromental justice.”
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