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Washington Watch: Biden aims to take on ‘environmental racism’ with executive action

President Biden is expected to pledge new policies toward environmental justice and attack GOP plans to strip green initiatives as part of debt-crisis fight. Read More...

President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order to create a White House Office of Environmental Justice, his response to a growing library of data that shows people of color are at much greater risk to the negative health and economic impacts from a warming Earth and concentrated pollution.

And Biden, who is seen as likely to run for another presidential term in 2024 although he has yet to officially state his intentions, used Friday’s event to argue that a Republican push for cutting back climate-minded spending…

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