Environmental Justice Tracker

EJ Tracker Update

White House Issued Government-Wide Guidance on Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Agency Decision Making

Last updated:

December 1, 2022

Statute

ESA, NEPA, Other

Agencies

CEQ, White House

Actions

Guidance/Policy

CEQ and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) jointly released new government-wide guidance and an implementation memo for federal agencies on how to recognize and include Indigenous Knowledge in research, policy, and decision making. The announcement coincided with the administration’s 2022 Tribal Nations Summit and fulfilled a 2021 CEQ-OSTP mandate to develop the guidance. Learn more about the development of the guidance and implementing memo.