{"id":44729,"date":"2025-01-24T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/trump-goes-to-war-against-environmental-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:30:47","slug":"trump-goes-to-war-against-environmental-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=44729","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goes to War Against Environmental Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Trump Goes to War Against Environmental Justice<\/h3>\n<h2 class=\"subtitle\">Apparently it\u2019s \u201cwoke\u201d to worry about excessive pollution in minority communities.<\/h2>\n<p><em>An executive order dating back to Clinton requires all agencies to make environmental justice part of their missions. They are required to consider whether their actions have \u201cdisproportionately high\u201d impacts on minority and low-income communities.<\/em> Those last two sentences were true all the way through Trump\u2019s first term and the Biden years. But no more.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/ending-illegal-discrimination-and-restoring-merit-based-opportunity\/\">revoked<\/a> the Clinton order, making it clear that agencies should no longer consider how their actions impact disadvantaged communities. This radical step follows in the wake of an earlier Trump order eliminating environmental justice offices in agencies.<\/p>\n<p>To implement this order, agencies will have to eliminate their own environmental justice regulations. At that point, the door will be open to judicial review. I think agencies will have a hard time justifying the repeals.\u00a0 Trump\u2019s executive order says that its purpose is \u201cending illegal preferences and discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As I discuss at length in a <a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/ajle\/article\/doi\/10.1162\/ajle_a_00048\/117640\/INEQUALITY-AND-REGULATION-Designing-Rules-to\">recent article<\/a>, there is no reason to think that the Clinton order violates either the Constitution or any civil rights law. Court have repeatedly upheld rules targeting the disparate impact of regulations on people of color. In addition, even if the environmental justice provisions are problematic in their application to race, there\u2019s not even a sliver of a legal argument against their application to low-income communities in general.<\/p>\n<p>Some conservatives have argued that the disparate-impact analysis \u2013 the approach taken in Clinton\u2019s executive order \u2013 is inconsistent with the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling against affirmative action. But the two are quite different.\u00a0 Affirmative action is an effort by the government to <em>benefit<\/em> minorities. Disparate-impact analysis is an effort by government to <em>avoid harming<\/em> them. It takes a high degree of sophistry to equate the two.<\/p>\n<p>Also, unlike affirmative action, a gain to one group in environmental protection does not equal a loss to another.\u00a0 Only one person can get a single slot in a college, but stopping a polluter who is harming a minority community does not deny white communities of any opportunities. In fact, quite often, they too will benefit from halting the pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as I explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/direct.mit.edu\/ajle\/article\/doi\/10.1162\/ajle_a_00069\/125064\/INEQUALITY-AND-REGULATION-REVISITED\">follow-up paper<\/a>, affirmative action has been a highly divisive issue on the Supreme Court for decades, so the ruling against it was not a surprise. In contrast, there have been only a couple of complaints by Justices about disparate-impact analysis in the over forty years it has been part of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, there is little or no basis for Trump\u2019s claim that Clinton\u2019s environmental justice order violated either civil rights laws or the Constitution. Maybe the Supreme Court will make a radical change in the law with no prior warning, but that is the only hope for Trump\u2019s claim that disparate impact analysis to protect minorities is unconstitutional. And not even that would justify eliminating disparate impact analysis to protect the poor.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s embrace of this extremist view is an indication of just how much more radical his second term may be compared with his first. Agencies that follow his order to eliminate their own environmental justice rules are courting judicial reversal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings below via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons above via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons below via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\"><i class=\"fa fa-tag\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/tag\/constitutional-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">constitutional law<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/tag\/discrimination-law\/\" rel=\"tag\">discrimination law<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/tag\/environmental-justice-3\/\" rel=\"tag\">environmental justice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/tag\/environmental-racism\/\" rel=\"tag\">environmental racism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/tag\/trump-2-0\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trump 2.0<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/legal-planet.org\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" rel=\"tag\">Trump Administration<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Goes to War Against Environmental Justice Apparently it\u2019s \u201cwoke\u201d to worry about excessive pollution in minority communities. An executive order dating back to Clinton requires all agencies to make environmental justice part of their missions. They are required to consider whether their actions have \u201cdisproportionately high\u201d impacts on minority and low-income communities. 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