Environmental justice advocates see 2022 as a make-or-break year.
President Joe Biden’s administration launched several big initiatives in 2021, from securing more money to improve drinking water quality and clean up Superfund sites to creating a screening tool to better highlight environmental justice communities. But advocates say those initiatives need to become action, particularly in poorer communities that have been disproportionately hit by pollution.
Biden must show he hasn’t forgotten Black and other marginalized voters who were crucial to his 2020 win, advocates say. Without progress, they fear, Republicans could take control of one or both chambers and push for ...