Oregon Law Professor to Lead EPA’s Environmental Justice Effort

Law professor Robin Morris Collin has been appointed senior adviser on the EPA’s environmental justice efforts, the agency announced Tuesday.

In her new role, Collin will have a direct line to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, counseling him on priority issues affecting low-income communities of color as they arise.

She is likely to be at the fulcrum of the Biden administration’s plan to deliver 40% of the benefits of federal investments to disadvantaged communities, create more accurate metrics for tracking environmental justice performance, and hold corporations responsible for historic pollution in environmental justice neighborhoods.

Collin is formerly a professor ...