EPA has quietly abolished a long-standing forum for exploring and addressing pollution’s unequal toll on people of color and low-income communities.
The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) — launched in 1993 — was among three advisory committees that EPA axed in response to a downsizing directive from President Donald Trump that calls for eliminating “unnecessary” panels, according to a publicly available database.
EPA cited the database in responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from POLITICO’s E&E News. Also scrapped: The White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions Advisory Council, both of which were founded during the Biden administration.
The NEJAC had a far longer history, dating back to its creation during the Clinton administration.
