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In a Rose Garden announcement, Biden pledges new policies toward environmental justice and attacks Republican plans to strip green initiatives from the IRA as part of debt-crisis fight
President Joe Biden speaks on Earth Day in 2022 in Seattle. Biden signed an executive order Friday to create a White House Office of Environmental Justice.
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President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to create a White House Office of Environmental Justice, his response to a growing library of data that shows people of color are at much greater risk to the negative health and economic impacts from a warming Earth and concentrated pollution.
And Biden, who is seen as likely to run for another presidential term in 2024 although he has yet to officially state his intentions, used Friday’s event to argue that a Republican push for cutting back climate-minded spending…
