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"EPA Wears Many Hats in Sprawling Environmental Justice Initiative" [1]

EPA and Justice Department officials in the Obama administration are putting more emphasis on environmental justice  -- an effort to reduce the greater hazards faced by poor and minority communities. But that job is not easy, especially in the face of industry resistance.

Emily Yehle and Lawrence Hurley report in a 2-part series for Greenwire April 13-14, 2011.

PART ONE [2]

PART TWO [2]

Activism [3]
Environmental Politics [4]
People & Population [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Public [7]
Source: Greenwire [2], 04/15/2011
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-wears-many-hats-sprawling-environmental-justice-initiative [2] http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/04/13/13greenwire-epa-wears-many-hats-in-sprawling-environmental-j-683.html [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81