Recent EPA Air Pollution Standards Will Prevent 100 Million Asthma Attacks and Save Over 200,000 Lives
Breathing Easy Report
Environmental Protection Network Commends EPA on Chemical Plant Emission Rule
EPN Comments on Risk Evaluation Under TSCA
EPN Comments on TCE Regulation Under TSCA
EPN Executive Director Speaks at NEST Summit for Climate Week
EPN Participates in South Coast AQMD’s 9th Annual Environmental Justice Conference
EPN Comments on EPA’s Proposed Federal Baseline Water Quality Standards for Indian Reservations
EPN Comments on EPA’s ECJ Grant Program RFI
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Environmental Justice
America, This is What Environmental Justice Is — And What We All Stand to Lose
Matt Tejada, former Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office for Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, wrote an opinion piece in Environmental Health News about the value of environmental justice in EPA.
EPA’s Environmental Justice Office in Tatters
Matt Tejada, former Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, was quoted in Politico about the environmental justice staff put on leave saying that “Without them, communities will face increased levels of toxic pollution, another generation of children drinking lead contaminated water, and the persistent damage to our nation’s health and wealth.”
Trump’s Push to End DEI Sharply Impacts EPA’s Environmental Justice Office
Matt Tejada, former Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil rights, and Michelle Roos were both quoted in Newsweek about the Trump administration’s move to put 168 EPA environmental justice staffers on administrative leave. The decision will disproportionately affect low-income communities who are already burdened with high levels of pollution.
Against All Odds, Biden’s EPA is Saving Lives and Tackling Climate Change at a Record Pace
Robert Wolcott, former EPA Senior Counsel to ORD and Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy and Regional Economist, and Jeremy Symons, Senior Advisor to EPN, co-authored an op-ed about the environmental accomplishments achieved by Biden’s EPA despite the many hurdles the previous administration left behind.