Posted on 04/21/2023 9:54:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden's latest climate action is intended to erase a legacy of institutional discrimination, which has led to underinvestment in climate infrastructure and other critical services in minority districts across the country.
April 21 (UPI) -- President Joe Biden will sign an executive order Friday to protect the environment and other vital resources in minority communities as part of a series of announcements this week to highlight government efforts to fight climate change.
The president's latest action on the environment, ahead of Earth Day on Saturday, was primarily intended to address a legacy of institutional discrimination, which has led to underinvestment in climate infrastructure and other critical services in many disadvantaged areas.
"These communities with environmental justice concerns face even greater burdens due to climate change," the White House said.
Biden's action will immediately work to reduce toxic pollution and deliver cleaner air and water to these areas to reduce the risk of asthma, cancer and other health-related issues, while creating better access to safe and affordable housing, green spaces and clean-running transportation, the White House said.
The order was intended to demonstrate Biden's commitment to the idea of environmental justice for all Americans.
"With this action, the president is working to ensure that all people -- regardless of race, background, income, ability, Tribal affiliation, or ZIP code -- can benefit from the vital safeguards enshrined in our nation's foundational environmental and civil rights laws," the White House said. "It also affirms that environmental justice is central to the implementation of our bedrock civil rights and environmental laws."
Most notably, the order establishes the creation of the Office of Environmental Justice within the White House Council on Environmental Quality and adds agencies to the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council.
The new office will be led by a yet-to-be-named federal chief environmental justice officer, who will coordinate and implement environmental justice policy across the federal government.
As part of the executive order, all government departments and agencies will also be required to incorporate Biden's environmental goals into their existing protocols as the administration takes a "whole-of-government" approach to environmental justice.
The order includes a provision to prevent disproportionate climate impacts on poor communities and will require federal agencies to notify residents in the event of a toxic spill.
Biden was seeking to strengthen federal engagement with local communities by requiring public meetings to share information on health risks and necessary precautions during environmental emergencies.
The order will also mobilize government agencies to confront existing barriers and injustices, which would open the door to meaningful public participation and give disadvantaged communities a voice in federal decision-making, the White House said.
The order was intended to target the illegal practice of redlining, in which banks and financial institutions refuse to provide credit services or mortgages to people from communities of color.
Biden is also directing his agencies to identify and address any loopholes in research related to environmental justice and to coordinate a strategy for identifying and filing environmental justice data. The agencies are also required to update existing environmental strategic plans to match up with Biden's goals.
The Environmental Protection Agency was also set to release a national strategy to combat plastic pollution and its disparate impact on disadvantaged communities, the White House said.
The announcement of Biden's executive order was timed to coincide with Earth Week, during which Vice President Kamala Harris and other Cabinet officials will hold several events to announce progress being made under the president's domestic agenda.
The Investing in America initiative has created new clean energy jobs, lowered industrial costs and advanced climate goals and conservation, while "strengthening communities that for too long were left behind or left out," the White House said.
The latest environmental action builds on Executive Order 14008 -- signed days after Biden took office in 2021 -- which ramped up federal climate efforts as the most pressing matter facing U.S. foreign policy and national security.
Efforts to curtail the climate crisis have gained steam around the world, with numerous climate summits and Biden forming the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in April 2021 to help galvanize the response.
Friday's executive action aligns with Biden's broader climate agenda, which calls for a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035 and net-zero vehicle emissions by no later than 2050.
Also this week, Biden announced $1 billion to help developing countries address emerging environmental concerns during a global climate forum at the White House.
East Palestine, Ohio, should bus in some illegals in order to get the government’s attention so they can finally have clean air and water again.
Man I heard interviewed recently said when we get social justice ratings the government can use them to ration the use of the dwindling power grid’s supply to recharge electric cars if the person “deserves” to drive somewhere.
And people will run their lives based on the charging of the EVs including a recommendation to have a second gas car for trip to an emergency room, in case the charge isn’t ready or allowed for them. Trips for tourism or sports events could dwindle as people need to use their EV charge ration for other purposes. Suggestion would be to watch sports on TV. Charging priorities would be the political and corporate elites. Rural people will not have close access to urban ones’ supplies and services and will need to watch the range of their vehicles closely.
He also said 18% of current EV owners did not want another EV after owning one. Repeaters tend to be male, young and nearly always Democrats.
He wrote an article in the Washington Examiner:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/heres-the-problem-with-biden-wanting-to-ban-cars-that-dont-run-on-batteries
RE: environmental justice for communities
Can someone please define “environmental justice” for me please?
Just talk and money for allied lobbying groups/people. You go into an underserved community and tell them "we're gonna tear down these 18 blocks of old homes and run-down apartments and replace them with new construction that can fit 4 times more people with better amenities"? Never gonna happen. You're going to displace all the current residents, who will protest. Then you need the local zoning and construction people to agree. Then you have to pay for it. And if you accomplish all that, maybe in a decade you'll have some nice new apartment complexes that will be more costly and all the previous residents will have new lives somewhere else.
Now if they actually wanted to do it, they could. You get it all lined up in advance and you pay the developers/contractors a bonus for every day they save in time completing the project, and you give the displaced residents first right to move into the first units ready for occupancy. But that isn't how it will work and everyone knows it.
All this will do is end up buying some electric buses that say "brought to you by Biden"; and line the pockets of people who work for advocacy and interest groups.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Patriots are hopefully not only tired of Biden unconstitutional federal government overreach, but also tired of career federal lawmakers letting Biden get away with this stuff.
I'm now inclined to think that Democratic and Republican patriots who regularly read Free Republic can pick better MAGA candidates than Trump can to primary career lawmakers in 2024. This s because Trump is arguably getting bad advice about candidates to endorse from institutionally indoctrinated, corrupt political party-affiliated advisors imo.
The definition of insanity is reelecting your state's Constitution-ignoring career state and federal lawmakers and executives over and over again, expecting different results every time.
Can someone please define “environmental justice” for me please?
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taking your stuff.
people seem to obey these edicts from Biden.
The US government is being led by complete imbeciles. This has all the hallmarks of Obama’s smelly anal fingers. The White Hut, all over again.
More thievery by the government of other people’s money. Stealing from workers and giving away to the freeloaders is the only way the far-left dung beetle turd rollers can get elected.
Global Warming/Climate Change is their ‘Emmanuel Goldstein’.............
Illegal EO
Can someone please define “environmental justice” for me please?
Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. This goal will be achieved when everyone enjoys:
1)The same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards, and
) Equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.
Years ago a friend with an MD. started an opinion with:
‘The vast minority of people...’
He couldn’t understand why I doubled over in laughter!
Oh. He’s not making these up. His handlers are.
Biden is acting like a dictator. He is bypassing all of our supposed ‘checks and balances’, with zero congressional or judicial oversight.
You know this clearly this came from the basement dummy’s puppet master Obama.
The EPA just recently lost in the Supreme Court saying they cannot enforce new polices outside of U.S. law on to businesses and people.
What this propaganda piece says about a cleaner environment, etc... There are already existing laws on pollution. So it’s nonsense about what this does.
Finally, “the order was intended to target the illegal practice of redlining, in which banks and financial institutions refuse to provide credit services or mortgages to people from communities of color.”
This is outside the scope of the EPA. Furthermore, they have no legal authority whatsoever.
Hi.
In the last two years I’ve come to the conclusion that the people pulling Biden’s strings are not incompetent, they’re evil.
5.56mm
Ah, bureaucracy!
Haven’t you Caucasian Americans had enough of the far-left Dung Beetle honkys blaming everything wrong with the world on you and turning their African reparations slaves on you for their Party?
“minority community”
A place where minorities are the majority...............
Global warming or climate change is exactly scheme for this redistribution purpose
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