The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent talk and new special program office on environmental justice won’t ensure a permanent change until it undertakes rulemaking to establish a formal legal structure. If EPA leaves its environmental justice programs without a firm framework, then it risks potential reversal of its efforts if a future administration is elected, particularly one that is significantly less devoted to environmental justice.
These issues and potential ramifications are discussed in an article that Ring Bender Partner Norman Dupont wrote for the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources – It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that [rulemaking] swing: The lack of enforceable environmental justice at EPA – which can be seen here.
