{"id":4387,"date":"2025-02-21T18:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2025-02-21T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:18:29","slug":"white-house-dismantles-nepa-leaving-vulnerable-communities-unprotected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/white-house-dismantles-nepa-leaving-vulnerable-communities-unprotected\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Dismantles NEPA, Leaving Vulnerable Communities Unprotected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PARA PUBLICACI\u00d3N INMEDIATA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 21, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CONTACT:<\/strong> Edder D\u00edaz Mart\u00ednez, Communications Manager, edderdiazmartinez@greenlatinos.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON DC <\/strong>\u2013 Yesterday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced the repeal of key regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This foundational law has long protected communities for over 50 years from harmful environmental and health impacts by ensuring a mechanism for public participation in major federal projects. This move prioritizes industry interests over public health and safety, stripping away vital protections that ensure communities\u2014especially Latino\/a\/e, Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities\u2014can have a voice and can push back against polluting projects that threaten their air, water, and overall well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe weakening of NEPA protections will hurt communities and their right to a safe and healthy environment,\u201d <strong>said Irene Burga, Climate Justice &amp; Clean Air Program Director at GreenLatinos.<\/strong> \u201cLatine, communities of color, and low-income communities already bear the brunt of pollution and climate change. Weakening NEPA removes one of the only tools communities have to hold the government and corporations accountable for environmental and public health harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without NEPA\u2019s safeguards, industrial projects could move forward unchecked, leading to increased air pollution, water contamination, and worsening climate impacts on our families. This decision disproportionately affects Latino\/a\/e, Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities, which are often located near toxic industries and infrastructure projects that contribute to health disparities and environmental destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Acerca de GreenLatinos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VerdeLatinos&nbsp;<strong>(NOTA: GreenLatinos es UNA PALABRA)<\/strong>&nbsp;es una comunidad activa de l\u00edderes latinos, envalentonados por el poder y la sabidur\u00eda de nuestra cultura, unidos para exigir equidad y desmantelar el racismo, con recursos para ganar nuestras batallas ambientales, de conservaci\u00f3n y de justicia clim\u00e1tica, y motivados para asegurar nuestras pol\u00edticas, Liberaci\u00f3n econ\u00f3mica, cultural y ambiental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>VerdeLatinos&nbsp;<strong>(NOTA: GreenLatinos es UNA PALABRA)<\/strong>&nbsp;es una comunidad activa de l\u00edderes latinos\/a\/e, envalentonados por el poder y la sabidur\u00eda de nuestra cultura, unidos para exigir equidad y desmantelar el racismo, con recursos para ganar nuestra justicia ambiental, batallas de conservaci\u00f3n, clim\u00e1ticas e impulsadas a asegurar nuestra Liberaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica, econ\u00f3mica, cultural y ambiental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 21, 2025 CONTACT: Edder D\u00edaz Mart\u00ednez, Communications Manager, edderdiazmartinez@greenlatinos.org WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Yesterday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced the repeal of key regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This foundational law has long protected communities for over 50 years from harmful environmental and health impacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[94,74,93],"federal_programs":[],"state_region":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-nepa","tag-press-releases","tag-white-house"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"federal_programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/federal_programs?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"state_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_region?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}