Here’s some good news to fuel your day: EPA’s FY 2022-2026 EPA Strategic Plan included a new strategic goal focused on addressing climate change and an unprecedented goal to advance environmental justice and civil rights and we’ve made a lot of progress in FY24! Acting Deputy Administrator, Jane Nishida, recently shared a few highlights. EPA:
- Worked with our partners to build resilience in over 900 communities, including Tribes, to help them adapt to the impacts of a changing climate, reengaged with the international community and secured climate commitments in 29 new countries.
- Integrated environmental justice considerations and strengthened civil rights compliance in every EPA program and region’s planning, guidance, policy directives, monitoring and review activities. Now, more than 70% of agency actions with environmental justice implications (rules determined to be significant under EO 12866 as amended by EO 14094) have been addressed helping to reduce a disproportionate impact on many communities across the country.
- Funded in FY 2024 the replacement of over 89,000 lead service lines in drinking water systems across the United States.
- Cleaned up over 150 Superfund sites with lead as a contaminant, restored more than 500 brownfields properties so that they are ready for reuse and cleaned up over 19,000 leaking underground storage tanks.
- Continued implementation of the hydrofluorocarbon allowance allocation program under the AIM Act to phase down U.S. production and consumption of HFCs by 85% by 2036, which is estimated to cumulatively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4,600 MMTCO2e between 2022 and 2050.
- Trained over 15,000 farmworkers in pesticide safety and implemented processes to ensure that 98% of risk assessments for new pesticides consider impacts on federally threatened and endangered species.
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