As we continue our campaign to call out the new administration’s war on equity, Peggy Shepard appeared in a CNN news story on the potential impacts this will have on our communities. In the story, which was also shared on Philanthropy News Digest’s Candid platform as well as the Yahoo News platform, she made our views clear:
“By instituting executive orders that really failed to address these issues, they are, in effect, making systemic racism a national policy,” Peggy Shepard, a former co-chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, told CNN.
“We have to fight back against the undermining of our efforts,” Shepard said. “They’re obviously making this systemic racism a cornerstone of the administration and working to eliminate so many of these policies and programs that support a safe and clean environment, so it will have a harmful effect.”