The executive branch launched a new office under the EPA over the weekend called the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, just weeks after progressives won billions in funding through the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.
The office is intended to address disproportionate harms inflicted on low-income areas and communities of color by pollution and climate change, according to reports.
Environmental initiatives received a whopping $60 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act, of which $3 billion will be allotted to the new environmental justice program. The funds will be distributed in grants to underserved communities affected by pollution, something the government is hoping Americans see as a benefit.
But really, the Biden administration’s equity, inclusion and social justice power play is evident. At the end of the day, this is the kind of “initiative” that leads to our ever-expanding federal government growing even more powerful.
The EPA announced that the new office “will position the agency to better advance environmental justice, enforce civil rights laws in overburdened communities, and deliver new grants and technical assistance.”
Biden will nominate an assistant administrator to lead the new office, who will then report to EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan.
Regan told AP News that the new office “will distribute billions.” He explained that the agency’s “pot of money” was extremely small before, making it difficult to distribute grants to communities. Now the agency will be capable of distributing powerful amounts of taxpayer dollars all while ensuring “underserved and overburdened communities are at the forefront of our work.”
The political establishment uses federal agencies as tools to further their agenda in a manner that can be perceived as virtuous. Really, these programs are after control and cannot be trusted.
Neither can politicians be trusted with huge amounts of power over regular Americans trying to earn a living and live a moral life. That’s not the lifestyle in the Swamp, which is why they need to be pushed back.
A Convention of States will force Washington to realize We the People don’t care what the politicians have to say. In the end, we care about our freedom and independence to live the way we choose. So let’s enact term limits, put budgets on the government and take away the excessive power and size accumulated by federal agencies.
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EPA adds new program to advance environmental justice that will ‘distribute billions’
Published in Blog on September 26, 2022 by Brianna Kraemer
