The New York Times reported that the White House plans to address the disproportionate toll climate change and environmental hazards take on communities of color using “race neutral criteria.”
Concerned that using race as a deciding factor to identify at-risk communities might prompt legal trouble and political blowback, officials crafting the Biden administration’s “Justice 40” plan said they were relying on other data points.
Household income, unemployment rates, air pollution levels and proximity to waste sites are all criteria used to identify disadvantaged communities, not race.
Mustafa Santiago Ali, vice president of Environmental Justice, Climate and Community Revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation, joins Charles Blow on “Prime” to discuss.
All this and more on “Prime.”
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