From ‘marginal to marginal’: environmental justice under the Trump administration

Kohl, Ellen; Sullivan, Marianne; Chambers, Mark Milton; Cordner, Alissa; Sellers, Christopher; Fredrickson, Leif; Ohayon, Jennifer Liss

doi:10.1080/23251042.2021.2015548

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“…Federally employed scientists surveyed in 2018 across 16 agencies, including at the EPA, reported a diminished focus on equity and environment justice [ 26 ]. At least through 2020, however, research also suggests that environmental justice had been traditionally devalued, underfunded, and marginalized by presidential administrations for decades, especially within the EPA’s environmental justice office [ 29 ]. Thus, this history of repeated sidelining of environmental justice across administrations provides important context for evaluating effects of further erosion of science and equity at an unprecedented pace during the Trump administration.…”

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An equity and environmental justice assessment of anti-science actions during the Trump administration

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Kalman

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J Public Health Pol

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In the United States, science shapes federal health and safety protections, but political officials can and do politicize federal science and science-based safeguards. Many presidential administrations have politicized science, but under the administration of President Trump, these attacks on science—such as buried research, censored scientists, halted data collection—increased in number to unprecedented levels. Underserved communities bore the brunt of the harms. Such attacks disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, low-income communities, and communities of color, all of whom have long been burdened by pollution exposure and other stressors. We analyze the effects on underserved communities of the Trump administration’s anti-science environmental and public health policy actions and offer policy recommendations for current and future administrations. Our goal is to strengthen scientific integrity, prioritize health disparity research, and meaningfully engage affected communities in federal rulemaking.

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confidence: 99%