The WHEJAC members have been appointed by the President. WHEJAC Membership and Workgroups Current WHEJAC Members: Increasing the Federal Government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice.Sustainable infrastructure, including clean water, transportation, and the built environment.Equitable conservation and public lands use.Toxics, pesticides, and pollution reduction in overburdened communities.Climate change mitigation, resilience, and disaster management.The duties of the WHEJAC are to provide advice and recommendations to the IAC 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: This council will advise on how to increase the Federal Government’s efforts to address current and historic environmental injustice through strengthening environmental justice monitoring and enforcement. The WHEJAC’s efforts will include a broad range of strategic, scientific, technological, regulatory, community engagement, and economic issues related to environmental justice. Through President Biden’s Executive Order 14008, titled Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad (signed January 27, 2021), the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) is being established to advise the Chair of the Council of Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the newly established White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council (IAC) to increase the Federal Government’s efforts to address environmental injustice. Per Executive Order on the continuance of certain federal advisory committees, the WHEJAC has been extended to September 30, 2023.
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