DHS drafts 'environmental justice strategy'

President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) outlined an “environmental justice strategy” that would review how a variety of DHS activities, from interaction with local governments to granting regulatory permits, affect poor and minority populations.

DHS defines environmental justice as “the commitment of the Federal Government . . . to avoid placing disproportionately high and adverse effects on the human health and environment of minority populations and low-income populations.”