How Durable Is President Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda?

The Biden administration is the first in U.S. history to prioritize environmental and climate justice across all federal agencies. Now, less than four years later, those agencies have invested billions in communities to address environmental justice (EJ) concerns and issued more protective regulations to address longstanding disparities in public health and environmental enforcement. But with the presidential election looming, which elements of Biden’s EJ agenda can be preserved if Trump wins in November? In an article published in the ABA’s Human Rights Magazine, EELP Senior Staff Attorney Hannah Perls describes how the election, the courts, and states will shape the durability of that legacy.