Activity, Law, Purpose
The Comment Period Is Open till February 19
I sat down to write about the anxiety everyone I know is feeling as our democratic institutions are being assaulted, for being a lifelong environmentalist I am being asked what to do. It’s a long story (there’s some discussion below) but there’s something everyone can do right now that is very easy and a very good thing to do.
You can comment until February 19 on the EPA’s proposed Environmental Justice framework for implementing Cumulative Impact assessments.[1]
Once we take Congress in the mid-terms, our representatives should be asked to restore this effort immediately. It says who we are as a people – we believe in fairness. Let no one say that because the current Administration will ignore this that there is no point in doing it, because it is more important than ever to stand for it.
By commenting you do two things: join others in affirming our joint will that our government be just, and draw attention to this tool, which is a significant achievement in the evolution of social responsibility. It took a long time to develop and we should be pleased with how the EPA has kept faith with this idea and worked on it to this point. As the EPA is being dismantled every means we have for embodying the truer reflection of our will – to have a quality environmental protection program and not one that buries some people under enormous burden - will help. This is one important thing that many raised voices can say, and it will be recorded for all history, right at this time of the attempted ending of environmental progress.
[1] https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OLEM-2024-0360-0001
Be sure to put at the top: Interim Framework for Advancing Consideration of Cumulative Impacts
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2024-0360
You can comment until February 19 on the EPA’s proposed Environmental Justice framework for implementing Cumulative Impact assessments.[1]
Once we take Congress in the mid-terms, our representatives should be asked to restore this effort immediately. It says who we are as a people – we believe in fairness. Let no one say that because the current Administration will ignore this that there is no point in doing it, because it is more important than ever to stand for it.
By commenting you do two things: join others in affirming our joint will that our government be just, and draw attention to this tool, which is a significant achievement in the evolution of social responsibility. It took a long time to develop and we should be pleased with how the EPA has kept faith with this idea and worked on it to this point. As the EPA is being dismantled every means we have for embodying the truer reflection of our will – to have a quality environmental protection program and not one that buries some people under enormous burden - will help. This is one important thing that many raised voices can say, and it will be recorded for all history, right at this time of the attempted ending of environmental progress.
[1] https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OLEM-2024-0360-0001
Be sure to put at the top: Interim Framework for Advancing Consideration of Cumulative Impacts
Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2024-0360