“Environmental justice” has no place at a regulatory agency. But the EPA was already a problem.
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IfyouweretobelievereportingfromTheNewYorkTimes—whichisanincreasinglyunwiseidea—theTrumpadministrationisdivertingtheattentionoftheEnvironmentalProtectionAgency(EPA)frompoorandminoritycommunitiesthatface“disproportionatelyhighlevelsofpollution.”Butifyouscratchthesurfaceevenabit,youfindthatwhat’sreallybeingeliminatedare“environmentaljustice”officesthatinfuseidentitarianideologyintoEPAenforcementefforts.Americansshouldwelcomeeffortstostripracialobsessionsfromthearmoryofregulatorswhoalreadywieldtoomuchpower.
CompetingTakeson‘EnvironmentalJustice’“TheTrumpadministrationintendstoeliminateEnvironmentalProtectionAgencyofficesresponsibleforaddressingthedisproportionatelyhighlevelsofpollutionfacingpoorcommunities,accordingtoamemofromLeeZeldin,theagencyadministrator,”LisaFriedmanwrotefortheTimes.Sheaddedthatthememodirectedthereorganizationandeliminati
