On April 21, 2023, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Environmental Justice entitled, Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All. He was surrounded by members of the White House Environmental Justice Council, representing environmental justice leaders from around the country. Some of these leaders were present at the 1994 signing of the first Executive Order (EO) 12892 on Environmental Justice (EJ) signed by President Clinton. The decades since that first EO was signed have demonstrated the power of the EJ movement to advance a national agenda.
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