February 18, 2025

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Trump revokes advances by Clinton, Biden

Trump revokes advances by Clinton, Biden

Among the targets of executive orders issued this week by President Donald Trump upon his return to the White House were actions taken by Presidents Clinton and Biden to ensure federal attention to environmental justice.

That included the revoking of Executive Order 12898, President Bill Clinton’s landmark order establishing federal actions to address environmental justice in minority and low-income populations, a move experts say could have deadly implications.

“It really shows there is a war on equity and a real fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of environmental justice,” said Peggy Shepard, executive director and co-founder of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, a national advocacy group based in New York City. “It ensures communities of color will feel the effects on their well-being.”

Trump revokes advances by Clinton, Biden

Trump revoked Clinton’s order as part of an overall directive seeking to halt what he describes as illegal discrimination while restoring “merit-based opportunity” – part of his broad opposition to programs intended to correct the wrongs of systemic racism.

“I therefore order all executive departments and agencies to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements,” Trump’s order states.

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