[StBernard] EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to Highlight Environmental Justice Initiatives at a Conference in New Orleans

[Westley Annis]

MONDAY: EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson to Highlight Environmental Justice
Initiatives at a Conference in New Orleans 

  

(Dallas, Texas - January 22, 2010)  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will deliver opening remarks
highlighting EPA's Environmental Justice initiatives at the 2010 Conference
on Environmental Justice, Air Quality, Goods Movement and Green Jobs in New
Orleans, Louisiana. 

  

Administrator Jackson has made promoting environmental justice and expanding
the conversation of environmentalism one of the seven key priorities of her
tenure at EPA. Since taking office, she has appointed a Senior Advisor for
Environmental Justice and a Senior Counsel for External Civil Rights in
order to focus the agency's efforts to address the health and environmental
burdens faced by communities disproportionately impacted by pollution. Most
recently, and consistent with this commitment, the agency announced that it
would asses the impacts of its hazardous waste rule on disadvantaged
communities. This action will also be used to inform EPA's ongoing effort to
strengthen the consideration of environmental justice in rulemakings. 

  

WHO:               Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

Administrator Lisa P. Jackson 

  

WHEN:             Monday, January 25, 2010 

8:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. 

  

WHERE:           New Orleans Marriott Hotel 

555 Canal Street 

New Orleans, Louisiana 

  

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