The Justice Department’s new environmental justice team spent its first year busily bringing cases, forging settlements, and building a national infrastructure of environmental justice-focused prosecutors, according to the group’s first-ever annual report.
The Office of Environmental Justice was unveiled in May 2022, along with a comprehensive enforcement strategy intended to reach a key Biden administration goal of protecting historically underserved communities.
DOJ has taken a wide range of actions since then, such as reaching an agreement in the Civil Rights division’s first ever environmental justice investigation under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act over whether Alabama’s Department of ...
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