{"id":5056,"date":"2025-07-10T23:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:03:02","slug":"agencies-undermine-environmental-justice-with-disjointed-nepa-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/agencies-undermine-environmental-justice-with-disjointed-nepa-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"Agencies Undermine Environmental Justice with Disjointed NEPA Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>GreenLatinos warns that CEQ\u2019s 2025 rule has opened the door to weakened protections and community exclusion<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 07\/10\/25<br>MEDIA CONTACT: Edder D\u00edaz Mart\u00ednez, Communications Manager, 602-832-6039, edderdiazmartinez@greenlatinos.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON\u2014<\/strong> In February 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2025\/02\/25\/2025-03014\/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Interim Final Rule<\/a> that rescinded longstanding NEPA regulations, giving federal agencies broad discretion to create their own environmental review procedures. The rule has sparked concern across environmental justice and public interest communities for removing key protections, including requirements for public participation, cumulative impact analysis, and environmental justice review. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/white-house-dismantles-nepa-leaving-vulnerable-communities-unprotected\/\">GreenLatinos response<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agencies are now releasing their own NEPA proposals, creating a confusing and inconsistent system that risks undermining the rights of frontline communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In response, GreenLatinos<\/em> <strong><em>\u00a0Irene Burga, Climate Justice and Clean Air Director, GreenLatinos:<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Federal agencies are moving forward with fragmented and inconsistent NEPA procedures that could leave communities with weaker safeguards, limited transparency, and fewer opportunities to participate in decisions that directly affect their health and environment. This decentralized approach is a direct result of CEQ\u2019s flawed rule and opens the door to permitting projects without strong environmental review or meaningful accountability. NEPA is one of the few tools that gives frontline communities a voice in how and where infrastructure is developed. Weakening or siloing that process across agencies threatens the very foundation of environmental justice.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Acerca de GreenLatinos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VerdeLatinos <strong>(NOTA: GreenLatinos es UNA PALABRA)<\/strong> 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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GreenLatinos warns that CEQ\u2019s 2025 rule has opened the door to weakened protections and community exclusion FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 07\/10\/25MEDIA CONTACT: Edder D\u00edaz Mart\u00ednez, Communications Manager, 602-832-6039, edderdiazmartinez@greenlatinos.org WASHINGTON \u2014 In February 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an Interim Final Rule that rescinded longstanding NEPA regulations, giving federal agencies broad discretion to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":5057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[74],"federal_programs":[],"state_region":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"federal_programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/federal_programs?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"state_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenlatinos.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state_region?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}