Bill Title: Creates a permanent environmental justice advisory group; provides that the function of the group is to ensure that no group of people, including a racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic group, bears a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies; provides that advisory group to adopt a model environmental justice policy applicable to state agencies, monitor agencies on compliance with such policies; specifies responsibilities of state agencies; establishes an environmental justice interagency coordinating council.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A08109 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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