Biden Environmental Justice Pledge Seen as a Moving Target (1)

Environmental justice groups are finding it harder and harder to pin down President Joe Biden’s promise to steer 40% of clean energy and other funding to boost racial equity and help vulnerable communities.

One of Biden’s campaign promises was to funnel 40% of his “historic investment in a clean energy revolution” to communities disproportionately impacted by pollution. The pledge, later to be called Justice40, drew praise from advocates for low-income neighborhoods and communities of color demanding attention for decades and getting little benefit from a U.S. clean energy revolution.

But that pledge has morphed since Biden has been in office, ...