Posted on 02/18/2022 6:20:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Biden administration on Friday released a screening tool to help identify disadvantaged communities long plagued by environmental hazards, but it won’t include race as a factor in deciding where to devote resources.
Administration officials told reporters that excluding race will make projects less likely to draw legal challenges and will be easier to defend, even as they acknowledged that race has been a major factor in terms of who experiences environmental injustice.
The decision was harshly challenged by members of the environmental justice community.
“It’s a major disappointment and it’s a major flaw in trying to identify those communities that have been hit hardest by pollution,” said Robert Bullard, a member of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
President Joe Biden has made combating climate change a priority of his administration and pledged in a sweeping executive order to “deliver environmental justice in communities all across America.” The order, signed his first week in office, sets a goal that the 40% of overall benefits from climate and environment investments would go to disadvantaged communities. The tool is a key component for carrying out that so-called Justice40 Initiative.
The screening tool uses 21 factors, including air pollution, health outcomes and economic status, to identify communities that are most vulnerable to environmental and economic injustice.
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Poor blacks. How have they survived all the racism???
the can spell disadvantages but can’t spell race.
Ta-da ... the Climate Change Police are on their way after they resigned from the Covid-19 Police Force.
More codswallop from the cockwombles.
What the actual you-know-what is “climate justice?” These people are mentally ill, and it is costing our Children their Nation!
[[but it won’t include race as a factor in deciding where to devote resources]]
Bull Turds
“but it won’t include race”
It’s not in the text of the order but it’s between the lines.
The nation is down the toilet and bashing White people is all they cab think of?
They just make this stuff up now.
(Actually, it's really all about whatever slice of the trillions in tax dollars is funneled to assorted commies under the guise of "climate justice.")
Climate Justice is a brand extension of the BLM farce.
When Black criminals go free there is no justice. Stopping the pipeline is criminal climate injustice that will also go unpunished.
What the eff is “climate justice?”
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OR, “environmental justice?”
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
Indeed. To be master and to get very rich as well.
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