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Biden administration launches environmental justice office
The Associated Press ^ | September 24, 2022 | By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM

Posted on 09/24/2022 3:10:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WARRENTON, N.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top environment official visited what is widely considered the birthplace of the environmental justice movement Saturday to unveil a national office that will distribute $3 billion in block grants to underserved communities burdened by pollution.

Forty years after a predominantly Black community in Warren County, North Carolina, rallied against hosting a hazardous waste landfill, Michael Regan, the first Black administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced he is dedicating a new senior level of leadership to the environmental justice movement they ignited.

The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights — comprised of more than 200 current staff members in 10 U.S. regions — will merge three existing EPA programs to oversee a portion of Democrats’ $60 billion investment in environmental justice initiatives created by the Inflation Reduction Act. The president will nominate an assistant administrator to lead the new office, pending Senate confirmation.

Biden has championed environmental justice as a centerpiece of his climate agenda since his first week in office, when he signed an executive order pledging 40% of the overall benefits from certain federal clean energy investments to disadvantaged communities overwhelmed by pollution.

Now, Regan said, this new office intertwines environmental justice with the central fabric of the EPA, equating it to other top offices like air and water, and cementing its principles in a way that will outlive the administration.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; criminalregime; ecofascism; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hoax; michaelregan; obamasfault; propaganda; slushfund; socialism; tyranny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

41 posted on 09/24/2022 5:10:29 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exactly.


42 posted on 09/24/2022 5:30:46 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: Skywise

https://www.un.org/en/civil-society/environmental-justice-foundation

UN directive
this is directly out of the communist playbook


43 posted on 09/24/2022 5:31:38 PM PDT by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: BitWielder1
this is the United Nations controlling your local government

https://www.un.org/en/civil-society/environmental-justice-foundation

44 posted on 09/24/2022 5:33:06 PM PDT by SisterK (the final variant is communism)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like a big piece the 1.1 trillion dollar walking around money Congress voted to throw away green energy schemes will be parceled over to their favorite voting block for them to share in the corruptive spending. A bunch of black Solyndras so blacks can share in the corruption.


45 posted on 09/24/2022 6:36:41 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights????

Yet ANOTHER unconstitutional federal agency to take away MORE of your freedom and MORE of your money.

When will the Patriotic Right stand up and take these unconstitutional acts and agencies to Court to have them negated and abolished as unconstitutional???


46 posted on 09/24/2022 6:38:09 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
 
 
Another office to enforce tyranny through lawfare. More and more tyrannical actions listed as grievances in the Declaration of Independence are reappearing every day it seems. What's old is new again.
 
 

47 posted on 09/24/2022 7:44:29 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The House controls the purse strings.

A GOP controlled Congress should refuse to fund this crap.


48 posted on 09/24/2022 8:15:28 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Skywise
There’s no such thing as environmental justice.

See "environmental racism," a term that originated decades ago.

49 posted on 09/24/2022 9:55:17 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

disadvantaged communities that are racked by severe crime that they caused


50 posted on 09/25/2022 3:16:02 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: BenLurkin

The Bolsheviks are on the march while we set about and whine...


51 posted on 09/25/2022 4:31:42 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: SERKIT

Justice.? If we’re hoping for justice nowadays we’re going to need a lot more then a lawyer and ballpoint pen to get it..


52 posted on 09/25/2022 4:42:31 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

Is Brandon channeling his, ‘Inner Nixon’ (EPA) these days? Ugh!

Make it stop! All of it! Make. It. Stop.


53 posted on 09/25/2022 6:55:23 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: SaveFerris
Yes...also rampant crime,open borders,political prisoners,....
54 posted on 09/25/2022 7:34:07 AM PDT by 4yearlurker
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To: ronnie raygun

It will redistribute walking around money to those communities. Another way to buy votes.


55 posted on 09/25/2022 8:35:58 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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To: BenLurkin

Another way for Democrats to seize power and transfer wealth to their friends.


56 posted on 09/25/2022 11:18:23 AM PDT by Pinggolf17
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Was the assault by talking, walking trees on Saruman’s white tower in Lord of the Rings Volume 2, an act of environmental justice, or injustice? Did Saruman’s tower have the right to counsel, a right to confront its accusers, or even a right to fight back? No. The trees just marched in and started smashing it. It was an arboreal lynch mob. Sure, you’ll argue. Saruman was up to no good. But is that the tower’s fault? It just sits around and has to let wizards do stuff inside it, without so much as a by-your-leave.


57 posted on 09/27/2022 4:18:05 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Free country? Good morning, Rip. )
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