Biden CEQ Contender Ali Cites EPA’s 50th Year To Push ‘Community’ EJ

Mustafa Santiago Ali, a former EPA environmental justice (EJ) official reportedly under consideration to lead President-elect Joe Biden’s White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), is citing EPA’s 50th anniversary as a time to focus on community-level EJ across the federal government and not just at the agency. “We have to continue to fully integrate environmental justice into everything that [EPA] does, but then we have to take it a step further and work with the 17 federal agencies and...