Affirming the need to achieve environmental justice, commending the work of environmental justice advocates, and for other purposes.

reaffirms the vital importance of clean air, clean water, resource conservation, and other policy goals that spurred lawmakers to enact existing environmental and public health protections;

affirms that the need for adequate environmental and public health protections is inextricably linked with the need for a more sustainable economy and greener, more livable communities;

affirms that environmental and public health policies should adequately and equally protect all Americans, and that equal protection is possible only in a context of environmental justice;

commends environmental justice advocates for their continuing struggle to achieve fairer, healthier, more sustainable policies and outcomes;

acknowledges the prevalence of environmental injustices that directly affect the health and well-being of individuals and communities across the country, especially racial minority, rural, indigenous, and low-income communities; and

affirms its commitment to ameliorating existing environmental injustices, and to preventing future injustices, by supporting greater objectivity, transparency, and outreach in policymaking at all levels of government; by supporting improved two-way communication between policymakers and those affected by their decisions; and by supporting processes that ensure policymakers give due consideration not just to the effects of their decisions, but to how those effects are distributed and by whom they are borne.