{"id":3768,"date":"2024-04-02T12:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/over-130-organizations-unite-to-call-for-greater-epa-funding-for-environmental-justice-in-2025-government-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:46:23","slug":"over-130-organizations-unite-to-call-for-greater-epa-funding-for-environmental-justice-in-2025-government-budget","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"http:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/over-130-organizations-unite-to-call-for-greater-epa-funding-for-environmental-justice-in-2025-government-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 130 Organizations Unite to Call for Greater EPA Funding for Environmental Justice in 2025 Government Budget"},"template":"","class_list":["post-3768","update","type-update","status-publish","hentry","update_type-announcements","person_tax-astrid-dubois"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":"","update_type":[363],"focus_area":false,"authors":[224],"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WASHINGTON &#8211;\u00a0 As we begin Earth Month, over 130 organizations join together to write to Congressional appropriators to advocate for high topline funding levels for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in particular their environmental justice investments, in fiscal year 2025 Appropriations. After cuts to environmental funding in the 2024 appropriations bills, this call from dozens of organizations emphasizes the need to invest in climate mitigation, public health, and the environment. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>Astrid DuBois, Government Affairs Manager, WE ACT for Environmental Justice responds:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWE ACT for Environmental Justice is honored to be joined by over one hundred thirty organizations in a united call for increased funding for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in fiscal year 2025 appropriations, especially to advance environmental justice. These diverse organizations represent frontline advocates and leaders of the environmental justice and broader environmental movement. To kick off Earth Month, we hope this letter sends a strong message and motivates Congressional offices to join this critical call. In the letter, we call for funding that meets or exceeds the $10.994 billion, especially the $1.5 billion to support environmental justice efforts, requested for the EPA in President Biden\u2019s FY2025 budget. In addition, we ask that the FY2025 bill restores the word &#8216;implementation&#8217; to the Environmental Justice appropriation language. These investments will allow the EPA to better achieve its mission to protect human health and the environment, as well as to advance justice and fight the climate crisis. All Americans, but particularly vulnerable and overburdened frontline and fenceline communities, deserve a life of clean air, water, and land &#8211; we know this budget is a starting point to see that future come to fruition \u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p><em><strong>FULL LETTER BELOW<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Sign-on-Letter-FY2025-EPA-and-EJ-Funding-Request.pdf\"><strong>PDF VERSION<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\r\n<p>The Honorable Jeff Merkley<br \/>\r\nChair<br \/>\r\nSubcommittee on Interior, Environment,<br \/>\r\nand Related Agencies, Appropriations<br \/>\r\nUnited States Senate<\/p>\r\n<p>The Honorable Lisa Murkowski<br \/>\r\nRanking Member<br \/>\r\nSubcommittee on Interior, Environment,<br \/>\r\nand Related Agencies, Appropriations<br \/>\r\nUnited States Senate<\/p>\r\n<p>The Honorable Mike Simpson<br \/>\r\nChair<br \/>\r\nSubcommittee on Interior, Environment,<br \/>\r\nand Related Agencies, Appropriations<br \/>\r\nU.S. House of Representatives<\/p>\r\n<p>The Honorable Chellie Pingree<br \/>\r\nRanking Member<br \/>\r\nSubcommittee on Interior, Environment,<br \/>\r\nand Related Agencies, Appropriations<br \/>\r\nU.S. House of Representatives<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h3>Fiscal Year 2025 (FY2025) Funding Request for the Environmental Protection Agency and Environmental Justice Initiatives<\/h3>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dear Chair Merkley, Ranking Member Murkowski, Chair Simpson, Ranking Member Pingree,<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are leaders within and allies of the environmental justice movement and write to underscore the importance of fully funding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as you begin developing the FY2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. <\/span><b>We urge you and your colleagues to continue the ambitious work of protecting communities and the environment by appropriating funding that meets or exceeds the $10.994 billion, especially the $1.5 billion to support environmental justice efforts, requested for the EPA in President Biden\u2019s FY2025 budget.<\/b><b> In addition, we ask that the FY2025 bill restores the word &#8216;implementation&#8217; to the Environmental Justice appropriation language.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Americans living frontline and fenceline to industry and polluters rely on the EPA to ensure their health and quality of life aren\u2019t compromised by pollution and to remediate in instances where public health harms and environmental degradation occurs. We count on the EPA to develop and enforce critical regulations such as the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Toxic Substances Control Act. Also, at this moment, the EPA is serving as an important instrument for ensuring that resources from the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA) and other once-in-a generation legislation reach communities, cities and states across the U.S. as we rebuild, restore and revitalize the nation. Our communities hope to see a continuation of a range of programs and research coming out of the EPA that can result in clean up of legacy pollution, advance justice and equity, and achieve economic empowerment in low-wealth communities, communities of color, and Tribal communities across the nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes historic investments in climate and environmental justice such as $3 Billion for Environmental and Climate Justice Grants, $27 Billion for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction fund, and $1 billion of investment in replacing fossil-powered heavy-duty vehicles with clean, zero-emission vehicles, among many others.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The EPA has swiftly developed these programs and these investments are beginning to reach communities. At this junction, it\u2019s critical to increase the topline funding of the EPA in service to preserving and enhancing the staff, systems, and other critical resources required to continue the efficient and equitable implementation of these spending bills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, funding the EPA at or above the level requested by President Biden is urgent and needed to remedy the significant funding cuts the EPA currently faces in the FY2024 appropriations allocations. The nearly $1 billion cut<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in funding to the EPA will certainly impact critical activities and programs that protect public health and the environment. For example, the Superfund program faces the largest cut despite the outsized impact that it had in communities last year. The agency spent $1.1 billion to clean up 84 Superfund sites &#8211; toxic waste sites which are excessively and extremely polluted &#8211; protecting the 900,000 people living nearby.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Remediating Superfund sites is a priority for many environmental justice and Tribal communities that confront the public health crisis driven by legacy pollution. We request additional appropriations in FY2025 to supplement the income generated from the Superfund taxes instituted by the IRA and IIJA. In addition, instead of cuts, we want to see increases in appropriations for environmental justice enforcement, which face a nearly $8 million cut in FY2024.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Congressional extremists targeting the EPA\u2019s budget to score political points are playing politics with peoples\u2019 lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, we were pleased that the Committees did not preserve the harmful riders from the House Interior and Environment FY2024 bill. We urge you to continue rejecting all harmful riders that may be proposed during the FY2025 appropriations process.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decades of research has revealed that low-income communities, communities of color, and Tribal communities are more likely to be exposed to pollution and other environmental hazards. It is well documented that environmental justice communities face the worst and increasing cases of asthma and early death as well as extreme heat and natural disasters from the climate crisis. This reality underscores the urgency of advancing environmental justice in this country, which requires significant federal resources to combat the challenge. President Biden has rightfully placed environmental justice at the forefront of his administration\u2019s agenda. We applaud this focus, and advocate for appropriations increases to make this a reality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for your consideration and efforts to secure a better future for our communities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sincerely,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Environmental Justice Organizations:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peggy Shepard, Co-Founder and Executive Director, <\/span><b>WE ACT for Environmental Justice\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pamela Miller, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Alaska Community Action on Toxics<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aaron Mair, EJ Coordinator, <\/span><b>Arbor Hill Development Corporation<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peggy Berry, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Between the Waters<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jane Williams, Executive Director, <\/span><b>California Communities Against Toxics<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atenas Mena, Executive Director,<\/span><b> CleanAirNow<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moshe Kornfeld, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Colorado Jewish Climate Action\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hilton Kelley, Founder\/Director, <\/span><b>Community In-power &amp; Development Association Inc<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monique Harden, Director of Law\/Public Policy, <\/span><b>Deep South Center for Environmental Justice\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bobby Jones, President, <\/span><b>Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mary Gutierrez, Director, <\/span><b>Earth Action, Inc.<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Kocher, Co-executive Director,<\/span><b> Extreme Weather Survivors<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p>Miaisha Mitchell, Executive Director, <b>Greater Frenchtown Revitalization <\/b><b>Council\/Tallahassee Food Network<br \/>\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donele Wilkins, CEO, <\/span><b>Green Door Initiative<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lee Anne Williams, Co-Chair, <\/span><b>Green New Deal Virginia<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irene Burga, Climate Justice &amp; Clean Air Director, <\/span><b>GreenLatinos<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heather McMann, CEO, <\/span><b>Groundwork USA<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dawud Shabaka, Co-Executive Director, <\/span><b>Harambee House, Inc.\/Citizens for Environmental Justice<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April Peebler, Executive Director &amp; Program Director, <\/span><b>Heirs To Our Ocean<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Charlotte L. Keys, Founder, <\/span><b>Jesus People Against Pollution<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Moore and Dr. Sofia Martinez,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-Coordinators,<\/span><b> Los Jardines Institute<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Katharine Burgess, Vice President, Land Use &amp; Development, <\/span><b>National Brownfields Coalition\u00a0<\/b><b>&#8211; Environmental Justice and Public Health Committee\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jodi Lasseter and Connie Leeper, Co-Executive Directors,<\/span><b> NC Climate Justice Collective<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim Warren, Executive Directors, <\/span><b>NC WARN<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mariel Nanasi, Executive Director, <\/span><b>New Energy Economy<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Miles, Executive Director, <\/span><b>New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diana Bohn, Co-Coordinator, <\/span><b>Nicaragua Center for Community Action<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jerry Rivers, Environmental Scientist<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>North American Climate, Conservation and <\/b><b>Environment (NACCE)<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matt Malina, Director &amp; Founder,<\/span><b> NYC H2O<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheryl Johnson, Executive Director, <\/span><b>People for Community Recovery<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matt Nelson, Executive Director,<\/span><b> Presente.org<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russell Chisholm, Co-director, <\/span><b>Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR)<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marquita Bradshaw, Founder and Executive Director, <\/span><b>Sowing Justice\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Timothy Edward Duda, Founder, Former Director, <\/span><b>Terra Advocati<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juan Parras, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chris Murawski, Executive Director, <\/span><b>The Clean Air Coalition of Western New York<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rev. Brendolyn J Boseman, Executive Director, <\/span><b>The Imani Group, Inc<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amanda Bonam, Interim Network Manager, <\/span><b>The National Black Environmental Justice Network\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kristin Kusanovich, Founder\/Director,<\/span><b> tUrn Climate Crisis Awareness &amp; Action<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paddy McClelland, Cofounder, <\/span><b>Wall of Women<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ayo Wilson, Director of Clean Energy &amp; Climate Justice, <\/span><b>West End Revitalization Association\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>350 Seattle<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>350 West Sound Climate Action<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Bergen County Green Party<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Center for Earth Energy &amp; Democracy\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>CT Coalition for Economic and Environmental Justice\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>GreenFaith<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Mothers Out Front<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>South Bronx Unite<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>The People&#8217;s Justice Council<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Tishman Environment &amp; Design Center at The New School<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><b>Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Tribal\/Indigenous Organizations:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Crystal Cavalier, CEO\/Executive Director, <\/span><b>7 Directions of Service<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asa Wright, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Indigenous Peoples Power Project<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Allied Organizations and Groups:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drew Hudson, Founder, <\/span><b>198 methods<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nora Privitera, Federal Team Chair, <\/span><b>350 Bay Area Action<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alan Weiner, Chapter Lead, <\/span><b>350 Conejo \/ San Fernando Valley<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephanie Robinson, Co-Executive Director, <\/span><b>350 Wisconsin<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Stewart, President, <\/span><b>Animals Are Sentient Beings, Inc.<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camden Weber, Climate and Energy Policy Specialist, <\/span><b>Center for Biological Diversity<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tama Becker-Varano, Lead Organizer, <\/span><b>Change Begins With ME (Indivisible)<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sean Jackson, National Water Campaigns Coordinator,<\/span><b> Clean Water Action<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Janet Cox, CEO, <\/span><b>Climate Action California<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rose Garr, Senior Government Affairs Director,<\/span><b> Climate Action Campaign<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ted Conwell, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Climate First!, Inc.<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director, <\/span><b>Delaware Riverkeeper Network<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raul Garcia, Vice President of Policy and Legislation, <\/span><b>Earthjustice<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isabel Gonzalez Whitaker, Director,<\/span><b> EcoMadres<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tara Thornton, Deputy Director, <\/span><b>Endangered Species Coalition<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ann Mesnikoff, Federal Legislative Director, <\/span><b>Environmental Law &amp; 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Olson, Senior Strategic Director for Health, <\/span><b>Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julie Tighe, President, <\/span><b>New York League of Conservation Voters<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Kraft, Director, <\/span><b>Nuclear Energy Information Service (NEIS)<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tim Judson, Executive Director,<\/span><b> Nuclear Information and Resource Service<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sally Jane Gellert, Member, Committee of Correspondence, <\/span><b>Occupy Bergen County<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pamela Richard, Office Admin, <\/span><b>Peace Action WI<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marj Plumb, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Physicians for Social Responsibility Maine<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tonyehn Verkitus, Executive Director, <\/span><b>Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lynn Ringenberg, MD, Co-Founder &amp; Board Officer, <\/span><b>Physicians for Social Responsibility\/Florida<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dianna Cohen, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, <\/span><b>Plastic Pollution Coalition\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chance Cutrano, Director of Programs, <\/span><b>Resource Renewal Institute<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sally Roberts, Chair,<\/span><b> Rise Up WV<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jeremy Cherson, Senior Manager of Government Affairs,<\/span><b> Riverkeeper<\/b><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Robert M. 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