‘Big Tent’ Environmental Justice Plan Looks Past Racial Divides

Environmental justice advocates are looking to link communities of color with experience fighting industrial polluters and landfills with polluted communities in Appalachia—a “big tent,” strength-in-numbers approach they say is ripe for results.

A coalition of 13 coal-country groups and national organizations want decisive action from the federal government. They wrote to Biden asking him to create a White House Office of Economic Transition and boost funding for transition programs.