President Biden and Vice President Harris believe that every person has a right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and live in a healthy community – now and into the future. During his first week in office, President Biden launched the most ambitious environmental justice agenda in our nation’s history. To continue delivering on that vision, today the President will sign an executive order further embedding environmental justice into the work of federal agencies to achieve real, measurable progress that communities can count on.

Tune in to see President Biden deliver remarks on Building Healthy Communities and Advancing Environmental Justice today at 2:15 pm ET here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7WtWdGDkSU

The new Executive Order, Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All, will:

• Deepen the Biden-Harris Administration’s whole-of-government commitment to environmental justice.
• Better protect overburdened communities from pollution and environmental harms.
• Strengthen engagement with communities and mobilize federal agencies to confront existing and legacy barriers and injustices.
• Promote the latest science, data, and research, including on cumulative impacts.
• Expand interagency coordination and launch a new Office of Environmental Justice within the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
• Increase accountability and transparency in federal environmental justice policy.
• Honor and build on the foundation of ongoing environmental justice work.

In addition to the Executive Order, today the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing other new steps to further the President’s historic commitment to environmental justice, including Publishing the first-ever Environmental Justice Scorecard, launching the White House Campaign for Environmental Justice, announcing new Justice40 covered programs and taking new steps to combat plastic pollution in communities.

Additional information about today’s actions is available in the fact sheet below and available here.

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- For more on the Biden-Harris Administration’s work to advance environmental justice, visit https://www.whitehouse.gov/environmentaljustice/.