He helped found the EPA’s environmental justice office during the early 1990s and became a key adviser to agency administrators under Republican and Democratic presidents. Ali’s departure, initially reported Thursday by InsideClimate, comes as the White House is seeking to close the agency’s Office of Environmental Justice. It also listed the environmental justice program as among several dozen slated to lose all funding. Do you think it’s a serious issue?”“I am familiar with the concept of environmental justice,” Pruitt answered. “The future ain’t what it used to be at the EPA,” Pruitt recently told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Source: Washington Post March 09, 2017 16:10 UTC