Environmental Justice For All Act
Latest action · Mar 18, 2021 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 18, 2021
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Environmental Justice For All Act
This bill establishes several environmental justice requirements, advisory bodies, and programs to address the disproportionate adverse human health or environmental effects of federal laws or programs on communities of color, low-income communities, or tribal and indigenous communities.
Specifically, the bill prohibits disparate impacts on the basis of race, color, or national origin as discrimination. Aggrieved persons may seek legal remedy when faced with such discrimination.
In addition, the bill directs agencies to follow certain requirements concerning environmental justice. For example, agencies must prepare community impact reports that assess the potential impacts of their actions on environmental justice communities under certain circumstances.
Further, it creates a variety of advisory bodies and positions, such as the White House Environmental Justice Interagency Council. Among other things, the council must issue an environmental justice strategy.
It also establishes requirements and programs concerning chemicals or toxic ingredients in certain products. For example, the bill (1) requires certain products (e.g., cosmetics) to include a list of ingredients or warnings; and (2) provides grants for research on designing safer alternatives to chemicals in certain consumer, cleaning, toy, or baby products that have an inherent toxicity or that are associated with chronic adverse health effects.
Finally, it creates a variety of funding programs, such as a grant program to enhance access to park and recreational opportunities in an urban areas.
Cosponsors 13
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 18, 2021 to Apr 27, 2022; 12 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-CA | Alex Padilla | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| I-VT | Bernard Sanders | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-HI | Brian Schatz | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-NJ | Cory A. Booker | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-MA | Edward J. Markey | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-MA | Elizabeth Warren | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-OR | Jeff Merkley | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-CT | Richard Blumenthal | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-IL | Richard J. Durbin | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-OR | Ron Wyden | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-MN | Tina Smith | Original | Mar 18, 2021 |
| D-PA | Robert P. Casey Jr. | Apr 27, 2022 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Environment and Public Works Committee | Referred Mar 18, 2021 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 18, 2021Introduced in Senate
- Mar 18, 2021Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
CRS reports 3
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 3
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| R47920 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Justice Activities and Programs | Report | Feb 13, 2024 |
| R43868 | The National Trails System: A Brief Overview | Report | Feb 6, 2023 |
| R47023 | Department of the Interior and Environmental Justice: Overview and Current Policies | Report | Jan 27, 2022 |
Related bills 5
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 1415 | Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act | Related bill | Nov 16, 2022 |
| S 1461 | Transit to Trails Act | Related bill | Apr 29, 2021 |
| HR 2021 | Environmental Justice For All Act | Identical bill | Dec 30, 2022 |
| HR 2924 | Transit to Trails Act of 2021 | Related bill | May 3, 2021 |
| HR 9218 | Cumulative Impacts Act of 2022 | Related bill | Oct 24, 2022 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to restore, reaffirm, and reconcile environmental justice and civil rights, and for other purposes.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Environmental Justice For All Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Administrative remedies
- Advisory bodies
- Air quality
- American Samoa
- Buy American requirements
- Caribbean area
- Child health
- Civil actions and liability
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Coal
- Community life and organization
- Congressional oversight
- Cosmetics and personal care
- Department of Transportation
- Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation
- Due process and equal protection
- Ecology
- Economic development
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Employee benefits and pensions
- Employment and training programs
- Energy revenues and royalties
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
- Environmental education
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Evidence and witnesses
- Executive agency funding and structure
- Executive Office of the President
- Federal officials
- Federal-Indian relations
- Food supply, safety, and labeling
- Foreign language and bilingual programs
- Geography and mapping
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Government information and archives
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Guam
- Gulf of Mexico
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Health programs administration and funding
- Health promotion and preventive care
- Health technology, devices, supplies
- Higher education
- Historical and cultural resources
- Housing and community development funding
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Indian social and development programs
- Infrastructure development
- Intergovernmental relations
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Legal fees and court costs
- Licensing and registrations
- Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
- Marketing and advertising
- Medical research
- Mining
- Minority health
- Monuments and memorials
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oil and gas
- Outdoor recreation
- Parks, recreation areas, trails
- Performance measurement
- Pest management
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Product safety and quality
- Public participation and lobbying
- Public transit
- Public-private cooperation
- Puerto Rico
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Regional and metropolitan planning
- Research administration and funding
- Rural conditions and development
- Sex and reproductive health
- Soil pollution
- Solid waste and recycling
- State and local government operations
- Transportation programs funding
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Urban and suburban affairs and development
- User charges and fees
- Virgin Islands
- Water quality
- Water use and supply
- Women's health
- Youth employment and child labor
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 18, 2021Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
