[CPEO-MEF] COMMUNITIES: Federal Agencies Sign Environmental Justice Memo

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Releases
U.S. EPA
August 4, 2011

Obama Administration Advances Efforts to Protect Health of U.S.  
Communities Overburdened by Pollution / Federal Agencies Sign  
Environmental Justice Memorandum of Understanding

WASHINGTON - Building on its commitment to ensuring strong protection  
from environmental and health hazards for all Americans, the Obama  
Administration today announced Federal agencies have agreed to  
develop environmental justice strategies to protect the health of  
people living in communities overburdened by pollution and provide  
the public with annual progress reports on their efforts.  
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, White  
House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley and U.S.  
Attorney General Eric Holder were joined by agency heads across the  
Administration in signing the âMemorandum of Understanding on  
Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898â (EJ MOU).



"All too often, low-income, minority and Native Americans live in the  
shadows of our society's worst pollution, facing disproportionate  
health impacts and greater obstacles to economic growth in  
communities that canât attract businesses and new jobs. Expanding  
the conversation on environmentalism and working for environmental  
justice are some of my top priorities for the work of the EPA, and  
we're glad to have President Obama's leadership and the help of our  
federal partners in this important effort," said EPA Administrator  
Lisa P. Jackson. "Every agency has a unique and important role to  
play in ensuring that all communities receive the health and  
environmental protections they deserve. Our broad collaboration will  
mean real progress for overburdened communities."


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/ 
bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/28420a5ae8467cf5852578e200635712! 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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