YID With LID: The EPA Issues Rules for "Social Justice"

YID With LID: The EPA Issues Rules for "Social Justice": "Achieving environmental justice (EJ) is an Agency priority and should be factored into every decision. Incorporating EJ considerations into the Action Development Process (ADP) represents a commitment to ensuring that all Americans, regardless of age, race, economic status, or ethnicity, have access to clean water, clean air, and healthy communities. It is vital that all Agency staff identify and address disproportionate environmental and public health impacts experienced by minority, low-income, and indigenous populations.

Thus begins a new guide issued by the Environmental Protection agency, they call it 'Environmental Justice' in actuality it is talking about Social Justice. All environmental rules are now to be evaluated on how they will impact minority areas and Native American tribes. Fair Treatment means that no group of people should bear a disproportionate burden of environmental harms and risks, including those resulting from the negative environmental consequences of industrial, governmental, and commercial operations or programs and policies.

The guide states that in the process of developing rules, policy statements, risk assessments, and other regulatory actions, EPA managers and staffers must first ask themselves, “Does this action involve a topic that is likely to be of particular interest to or have particular impact upon minority, low-income, or indigenous populations, or tribes?”

If the answer is yes, the rule-writers must reach out to the affected minority and/or low-income communities. One section of the guide explains how EPA rule-writers may have to make “special efforts” to connect with people who may be uneducated or non-English-speaking.