Clinton’s environmental justice Executive Order depended on prior academic documentation

Evidence

In signing the Executive Order on Environmental Justice, for example, President Clinton acknowledged the need to “focus Federal attention on the environmental and human health conditions in minority communities and low-income communities with the goal of achieving environmental justice.” Without the previous decade of studies that had established the scope of the environmental injustice in these communities, the problem never would have reached the attention of the White House. — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 153

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Clinton’s 1994 Executive Order made environmental justice official federal policy — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 709; Clinton’s 1994 executive order made environmental justice part of federal agency missions — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 618

Broader Connections

• Clinton’s 1994 executive order made environmental justice part of federal agency missions #expands (0.90) — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 618