Has The Moment For Environmental Justice Been Lost?

[turbinetree]

Reprinted with permission from ProPublica.

Given how President Donald Trump has taken aim at the Environmental Protection Agency with regulatory rollbacks and deep proposed budget cuts, it may come as no surprise that the Office of Environmental Justice is on the chopping block.

This tiny corner of the EPA was established 24 years ago to advocate for minorities and the poor, populations most likely to face the consequences of pollution and least able to advocate for themselves.

It does so by acting as a middleman, connecting vulnerable communities with those who can help them. It heads a group that advises EPA officials about injustices and another that brings together representatives from other federal agencies and the White House to swap proposals.

When it works, all the talk leads to grants, policies and programs that change lives.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/moment-environmental-justice-lost/


This country is here-by fucked

[hedda_foil]

1. Not exactly. It's actually the movement for justice itself that has been lost.

[hunter]

2. We blew past that exit forty years ago.

The best we can hope for now is a crash landing most of us can walk away from.

I'm confident the meek shall inherit this earth simply because there are so many of them.

We of the high energy industrial "first world" economies may not.

[Calculating]

3. Yeah, environmental justice has been shoved pretty far back on the stove at this point

I don't expect any real leadership on it until 2020 at best.