Tag: cumulative impact

EPA Updates Legal Guidance for Addressing Cumulative Impacts

By Lisa Whitley Coleman, EHS Daily Advisor Mar 1, 2023 EHS Administration

Updated: Mar 1, 2023

The EPA recently released the “Cumulative Impacts Addendum to EPA Legal Tools to Advance Environmental Justice (EJ Legal Tools).” It provides a collection of examples of the Agency’s legal authorities to identify and address cumulative impacts through a range of actions, including permitting, regulations, and grants, in order to consider the lived experience of communities […]

Environmental law and regulation

Cumulative Impact Ordinances Address Environmental Justice

By Lisa Whitley Coleman, EHS Daily Advisor Jun 3, 2021 Regulatory Developments

Updated: Jun 3, 2021

Chicago may be the latest city to join other cities that have enacted cumulative pollution impact ordinances that address the impact of additional pollution from industrial operations seeking to open or expand operations “in already burdened low-income communities of color,” says the Chicago Sun Times.