Final Recommendations: Justice40 Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool & Executive Order 12898 Revisions

About the WHEJAC:

Through President Biden’s Executive Order 14008, titled Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad , the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) was established to advise the Chair of The Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (WHEJIC) to increase the Federal Government’s efforts to address environmental injustice. The WHEJAC’s efforts will include a broad range of strategic, scientific, technological, regulatory, community engagement, and economic issues related to environmental justice. This Council advises on how to increase the Federal Government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice through strengthening environmental justice monitoring and enforcement. The duties of the WHEJAC are to provide advice and recommendations to the WHEJIC and the Chair of CEQ on a whole-of-government approach to environmental justice, including, but not limited, to environmental justice in the following areas: • Climate Change Mitigation, Resilience, and Disaster Management • Toxics, Pesticides, And Pollution Reduction in Overburdened Communities • Equitable Conservation and Public Lands Use • Tribal and Indigenous Issues • Clean Energy Transition • Sustainable Infrastructure, Including Clean Water, Transportation, And the Built Environment • NEPA, Enforcement and Civil Rights • Increasing the Federal Government’s Efforts to Address Current and Historic Environmental Injustice.