Read part 1 of this blog post series on the White House’s initiative.
In a previous blog post about the federal Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) recent report about how the White House can better implement its Justice40 initiative, I noted that the GAO should have said the program needs much more transparency at multiple levels. That is the first of three fixes that I and my former colleague and senior official at the EPA Matthew Tejada agree should have been recommended.
As former EPA officials in the agency’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, we had a front row seat to how Justice40, a landmark initiative born via President Biden’s executive order 14008, was rolled out.
There are two more fixes we think the GAO should have recommended to the White House to strengthen implementation of Justice40.
What the GAO should have…
Read the full article originally published at blog.ucsusa.org.