Steptoe and Johnson LLP issued the following announcement on Aug. 3.
Law360 quoted Cynthia Taub in a July 29 article titled "Four Areas EPA Could Expand With House's 23% Budget Boost." The article, published July 29, discusses the US House of Representatives' passage of a spending package that includes $11.3 billion for the EPA, the agency's biggest budget ever.
One of the areas expected to be impacted by the financial boost is environmental justice, which has been elevated to its own program area for the first time.
Taub tells Law360: "Environmental justice traditionally was considered under each program, when a federal action was supposed to be considering environmental justice impacts or there was an executive order or some other general principles. But now, if they're going to create an actual program, that obviously is going to make a difference in terms of EPA's role."
The full article can be read at Law360 (subscription required).
Original source can be found here.
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