On February 14, EPA released the 2023 update to its Equity Action Plan, part of the Agency’s efforts to implement President Biden’s Executive Order, “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government.” Following engagement with community stakeholders, EPA identified eight priority strategies, four continuing and four new:
- Improve access for communities to federal assistance
- Reduce cumulative impacts and health disparities
- Strengthen our civil rights compliance program
- Protect children from exposures to environmental harms
- Address inequitable access to resources for rural communities
- Ensure public access to EPA programs and address environmental harms for people with disabilities
- Strengthening community-based participatory science to achieve environmental equity
- Improve data and analytic capacity to better identify and remove barriers.
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