Month: September 2021

The FY 2020 Environmental Justice Progress Report (“FY 2020 Report”), mandated by
Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, highlights the outcomes the EPA is
achieving for communities with environmental justice concerns. These outcomes include
accelerating the clean-up of contaminated sites and returning them to productive use,
improving air quality in areas out of attainment, financing critical water infrastructure
improvements, and delivering technical assistance and grant funding to economically distressed
communities, including Opportunity Zones.

This synopsis covers NEJAC members’ deliberations during the three-day meeting. It also
summarizes the issues raised during the public comment period.

At a November listening session hosted by Puerto Rico’s federally appointed fiscal management board, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez professor Ma