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Amy Widman
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Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law (Rutgers), American Bar Foundation Access to Justice Scholar - access to justice, administrative law, state and local government, legal education
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Whatever the Trump admin thinks about "environmental justice" as a philosophy, in practical terms it means providing protections to poorer communities facing environmental risks, like natural disasters.
(This might also explain Trump's opposition to FEMA - he thinks it is woke).
Grants approved and under consideration by the Federal Emergency Management Agency show projects from Alaska to Florida, many targeted at helping small communities. They include: $23m for a new wastewater treatment plant in DePue, Illinois, where heavy rains have caused sewage backup in people’s basements; $5.4m to upgrade the wastewater facility in Hickory, North Carolina, to protect it from floods — as were seen when Hurricane Helene ravaged mountain communities; and $2.5m for a safe room for students and staff in Danville, Arkansas, an economically disadvantaged rural community with no school tornado shelter, in a county where a deadly historic long-track tornado spawned in 2008.
January 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM