The order will create a White House Office for Environmental Justice and require several federal agencies to take steps to protect Americans from the effects of pollution.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are requesting the EPA provide information so they can ensure that a grant program isn’t ‘a $100 million slush fund for far-left organizations.’

Former President Donald Trump’s administration dismantled EPA regulations, postponed meaningful progress on emissions reduction and mainstreamed climate denial.

Studies show minority communities suffer disproportionately high negative effects from air pollution.

Proposals from Sens. Rick Scott and Ron Johnson would require Congress to repeatedly authorize funding for Social Security and Medicare.

The EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, funded thanks to the Biden-backed Inflation Reduction Act, has already earned praise from climate advocates.

Jackson, Mississippi, a city of 150,000, is in the sixth week of a boil-water advisory from the state health department because of concerns that low pressure could allow contaminants into the water.

The three former officials called the bill ‘the most significant piece of climate legislation in United States history.’

‘We’re not seeing a whole lot of common sense in his policies. He tends to toss aside serious ideas about climate change as just left-wing politics,’ said Sierra Club Florida political director Luigi Guadarrama.

$154 million from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will be used to improve water infrastructure for Native American tribes and Alaska Native villages.

Diesel pollution has been associated with cardiac and respiratory illnesses as well as greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change.

In total, $3.5 billion will be allocated under the law to clean up Superfund sites across the country.

‘Communities of color, indigenous communities and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution and climate change,’ Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

‘There are some amazing success stories,’ said Stanford University environmental scientist Rob Jackson.

The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could ‘eviscerate the EPA’s ability to implement the Clean Air Act to protect our environment.’

The agency is working to reverse Donald Trump’s disastrous anti-environment agenda.

‘We’re going to use every tool in our toolbox to restrict human exposure to these toxic chemicals,’ said Michael Regan, head of the EPA.

States and cities have worked for years to replace pipes and service lines, but efforts have lagged in many places in part because of the steep price tag.

Environmental and public health groups hailed the rule change as a return to EPA’s responsibility to follow science and prioritize public health.

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‘We are really tying that back to this notion that environmental justice and equity will be center stage at EPA and this administration,’ said EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

The agency’s bargaining power will be restored as anti-union, Trump-era regulations are replaced with more worker-friendly, pre-Trump contract terms.

Louis Anthony ‘Tony’ Cox allowed the oil and gas industry to edit a study playing down the link between pollution and asthma.

‘When I blow my nose, blood comes out,’ one immigrant reported.

An EPA spokesman said Friday the agency is ‘committed to making evidence-based decisions and developing policies and programs that are guided by the best science.’

Outside groups are suing the environmental agency for rolling back a number of critical protections over the past four years.

The EPA has been one of the most active agencies in carrying out Donald Trump’s mandate to roll back regulations that conservative groups have identified as burdensome to industry.

EPA scientists have estimated exposure at current limits causes the early deaths of tens of thousands of Americans annually.

Donald Trump has ruthlessly pushed policies that accelerate climate change and devastate the environment.

Donald Trump also repeated unfounded claims that Joe Biden would destroy suburbia.