'Hopefully, these resignations will be a major wake-up call,' said climate activist Jamie Henn.
in a statement that Kieve's"advocacy and work on climate issues has made him an important ambassador for the president to the climate community, rallying their support behind our ambitious agenda to tackle the climate crisis, the existential threat of our time.
"Everybody that environmental justice people were connected with are gone," Beverly Wright, executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, told"What's going on in D.C. right now is very bothersome to me," she added."Black people—now I can't speak for anyone else—we're kind of feeling like we've been thrown under the bus.
As such, the need to work to defend those"on the fencelines of environmental injustices" is as clear as ever, the Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform and Coming Clean, two groups focused on racial justice and health issues.following Martinez's departure, the networks expressed hope that CEQ would continue a"commitment to EJ moving forward so that all people can live, learn, work, play, and pray free from harm."
That requires CEQ to"remain steadfast and strengthen its commitments to environmental justice through new funding, policies, and actions that reach and benefit communities on the ground," the groups said, and for the administration to center environmental justice"in all levels of federal policy."
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