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S. 2549 - Environmental Justice Renewal Act

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A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice to provide guidance to Federal agencies on the development of criteria for identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations, and for other purposes. (by More
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice to provide guidance to Federal agencies on the development of criteria for identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations, and for other purposes. (by CRS) Hide
 
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Environmental Justice Renewal Act

S. 2549 — 110th Congress (2007–2008)

Summary
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice to provide guidance to Federal agencies on the development of criteria for identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations, and for other purposes. (by CRS)
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Title
A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish an Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice to provide guidance to Federal agencies on the development of criteria for identifying disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority populations and low-income populations, and for other purposes.
Other Titles
  • Environmental Justice Renewal Act
  • Environmental Justice Renewal Act
Sponsor
Hillary Clinton
Co-Sponsors
Subjects
  • Environmental protection
  • Budgets
  • Employee training
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Environmental health
  • Environmental justice
  • Executive departments
  • Executive reorganization
  • Federal advisory bodies
  • Federal employees
  • Government employees
  • Government information
  • Government publicity
  • Grants-in-aid
  • Medical care
  • Medicine
  • Ombudsman
  • Politics and government
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Major Actions
Introduced1/23/2008
Referred to Committee
Bill History

There have been no votes on this bill.

ActionDateDescription
Introduced1/23/2008
1/23/2008Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S209)
1/23/2008Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Put on a legislative calendar7/31/2008Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
9/24/2008Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-498. Minority views filed.
Put on a legislative calendar9/24/2008Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1076.
NumberSponsorDate OfferedStatus
6 Organizations Supported and 0 Opposed; See Which Ones
6 Organizations Supported and 0 Opposed; See Which Ones

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Environmental Justice Renewal Act

6 organizations supported this bill

Center on Race Poverty & the Environment
(n.d.). Clinton, Solis Introduce Legislation to Address Unfair Impact of Pollution on Minority Neighborhoods. Retrieved n.d., from .
Earthjustice
MetroLatinoUSA (2008, January 24). Clinton, Solis Introduce Legislation to Address Unfair Impact of Pollution on Minority Neighborhoods. Retrieved August 3, 2008, from Hispanic News.
Indigenous Environmnetal Network
(n.d.). Clinton, Solis Introduce Legislation to Address Unfair Impact of Pollution on Minority Neighborhoods. Retrieved n.d., from .
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
(n.d.). Clinton, Solis Introduce Legislation to Address Unfair Impact of Pollution on Minority Neighborhoods. Retrieved n.d., from .
ReGenesis
(n.d.). Clinton, Solis Introduce Legislation to Address Unfair Impact of Pollution on Minority Neighborhoods. Retrieved n.d., from .
Sierra Club
(n.d.). Sierra Club Applauds Introduction of "Environmental Justice Renewal Act" Statement of Leslie Fields, Sierra Club National Environmental Justice Director. Retrieved n.d., from .

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Includes reported contributions to congressional campaigns of Senators in office during the 110th U.S. Congress, from interest groups invested in the vote according to MapLight, January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2008.
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Contributions by Legislator

Namesort iconPartyState$ From Interest Groups
That Supported		$ From Interest Groups
That Opposed
Daniel K. AkakaDHI$136,010$0
Andrew Lamar AlexanderRTN$478,050$0
Alan Wayne AllardRCO$6,000$0
John BarrassoRWY$42,757$0
Max BaucusDMT$624,461$0
Birch "Evan" BayhDIN$1,183,705$0
Bob BennettRUT$133,826$0
Joe BidenDDE$2,089,482$0
Jesse "Jeff" BingamanDNM$425,729$0
Christopher "Kit" BondRMO$451,760$0
Barbara BoxerDCA$1,673,450$0
Sherrod BrownDOH$1,325,868$0
Sam BrownbackRKS$78,251$0
Jim BunningRKY$221,149$0
Richard BurrRNC$501,071$0
Robert ByrdDWV$221,426$0
Maria CantwellDWA$1,307,711$0
Ben CardinDMD$991,666$0
Tom CarperDDE$341,088$0
Bob CaseyDPA$3,117,413$0
Clarence Saxby ChamblissRGA$719,076$0
Hillary ClintonDNY$4,389,418$0
Tom CoburnROK$88,440$0
William Thad CochranRMS$196,064$0
Norm ColemanRMN$780,586$0
Susan CollinsRME$436,280$0
Gaylord Kent ConradDND$457,653$0
Bob CorkerRTN$573,510$0
John CornynRTX$1,283,233$0
Larry CraigRID$34,500$0
Mike CrapoRID$145,237$0
Jim DeMintRSC$571,198$0
Chris DoddDCT$688,202$0
Mary Elizabeth DoleRNC$549,241$0
Pete DomeniciRNM$109,350$0
Byron DorganDND$308,201$0
Dick DurbinDIL$1,610,302$0
John EnsignRNV$255,345$0
Mike EnziRWY$48,501$0
Russ FeingoldDWI$721,379$0
Dianne FeinsteinDCA$677,941$0
Lindsey GrahamRSC$1,239,549$0
Chuck GrassleyRIA$277,568$0
Judd GreggRNH$112,187$0
Chuck HagelRNE$60,850$0
Tom HarkinDIA$566,903$0
Orrin HatchRUT$441,794$0
Kay Bailey HutchisonRTX$719,618$0
Jim InhofeROK$149,018$0
Dan InouyeDHI$226,893$0
Johnny IsaksonRGA$610,511$0
Tim JohnsonDSD$240,597$0
Ted KennedyDMA$982,568$0
John KerryDMA$374,401$0
Amy KlobucharDMN$961,266$0
Herb KohlDWI$500$0
Jon KylRAZ$717,166$0
Mary LandrieuDLA$1,165,585$0
Frank LautenbergDNJ$813,285$0
Patrick LeahyDVT$543,529$0
Carl LevinDMI$697,171$0
Joe LiebermanICT$1,104,306$0
Blanche LincolnDAR$379,345$0
Dick LugarRIN$340,790$0
Mel MartinezRFL$1,068,287$0
John McCainRAZ$128,825$0
Claire McCaskillDMO$1,365,303$0
Addison "Mitch" McConnellRKY$808,283$0
Bob MenéndezDNJ$1,950,459$0
Barbara MikulskiDMD$286,837$0
Lisa MurkowskiRAK$225,220$0
Patty MurrayDWA$813,624$0
Earl "Ben" NelsonDNE$442,635$0
Clarence "Bill" NelsonDFL$2,415,542$0
Barack ObamaDIL$2,229,349$0
Mark PryorDAR$618,101$0
John "Jack" ReedDRI$367,283$0
Harry ReidDNV$1,159,522$0
Charles "Pat" RobertsRKS$193,578$0
John "Jay" RockefellerDWV$692,474$0
Ken SalazarDCO$1,607,318$0
Bernie SandersIVT$137,419$0
Chuck SchumerDNY$1,103,966$0
Jeff SessionsRAL$405,689$0
Richard ShelbyRAL$719,624$0
Gordon SmithROR$456,285$0
Olympia SnoweRME$150,485$0
Arlen SpecterDPA$2,410,330$0
Debbie StabenowDMI$1,268,154$0
Ted StevensRAK$250,591$0
John SununuRNH$263,214$0
Jon TesterDMT$545,958$0
John ThuneRSD$427,861$0
David VitterRLA$535,549$0
George VoinovichROH$556,349$0
John WarnerRVA$1,000$0
Jim WebbDVA$563,707$0
Sheldon WhitehouseDRI$744,218$0
Roger WickerRMS$350,355$0
Ron WydenDOR$263,757$0

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NamePartyState$ From Interest Groups
That Supported		$ From Interest Groups
That Opposed
Daniel K. AkakaDHI$136,010$0
Andrew Lamar AlexanderRTN$478,050$0
Alan Wayne AllardRCO$6,000$0
John BarrassoRWY$42,757$0
Max BaucusDMT$624,461$0
Birch "Evan" BayhDIN$1,183,705$0
Bob BennettRUT$133,826$0
Joe BidenDDE$2,089,482$0
Jesse "Jeff" BingamanDNM$425,729$0
Christopher "Kit" BondRMO$451,760$0
Barbara BoxerDCA$1,673,450$0
Sherrod BrownDOH$1,325,868$0
Sam BrownbackRKS$78,251$0
Jim BunningRKY$221,149$0
Richard BurrRNC$501,071$0
Robert ByrdDWV$221,426$0
Maria CantwellDWA$1,307,711$0
Ben CardinDMD$991,666$0
Tom CarperDDE$341,088$0
Bob CaseyDPA$3,117,413$0
Clarence Saxby ChamblissRGA$719,076$0
Hillary ClintonDNY$4,389,418$0
Tom CoburnROK$88,440$0
William Thad CochranRMS$196,064$0
Norm ColemanRMN$780,586$0
Susan CollinsRME$436,280$0
Gaylord Kent ConradDND$457,653$0
Bob CorkerRTN$573,510$0
John CornynRTX$1,283,233$0
Larry CraigRID$34,500$0
Mike CrapoRID$145,237$0
Jim DeMintRSC$571,198$0
Chris DoddDCT$688,202$0
Mary Elizabeth DoleRNC$549,241$0
Pete DomeniciRNM$109,350$0
Byron DorganDND$308,201$0
Dick DurbinDIL$1,610,302$0
John EnsignRNV$255,345$0
Mike EnziRWY$48,501$0
Russ FeingoldDWI$721,379$0
Dianne FeinsteinDCA$677,941$0
Lindsey GrahamRSC$1,239,549$0
Chuck GrassleyRIA$277,568$0
Judd GreggRNH$112,187$0
Chuck HagelRNE$60,850$0
Tom HarkinDIA$566,903$0
Orrin HatchRUT$441,794$0
Kay Bailey HutchisonRTX$719,618$0
Jim InhofeROK$149,018$0
Dan InouyeDHI$226,893$0
Johnny IsaksonRGA$610,511$0
Tim JohnsonDSD$240,597$0
Ted KennedyDMA$982,568$0
John KerryDMA$374,401$0
Amy KlobucharDMN$961,266$0
Herb KohlDWI$500$0
Jon KylRAZ$717,166$0
Mary LandrieuDLA$1,165,585$0
Frank LautenbergDNJ$813,285$0
Patrick LeahyDVT$543,529$0
Carl LevinDMI$697,171$0
Joe LiebermanICT$1,104,306$0
Blanche LincolnDAR$379,345$0
Dick LugarRIN$340,790$0
Mel MartinezRFL$1,068,287$0
John McCainRAZ$128,825$0
Claire McCaskillDMO$1,365,303$0
Addison "Mitch" McConnellRKY$808,283$0
Bob MenéndezDNJ$1,950,459$0
Barbara MikulskiDMD$286,837$0
Lisa MurkowskiRAK$225,220$0
Patty MurrayDWA$813,624$0
Earl "Ben" NelsonDNE$442,635$0
Clarence "Bill" NelsonDFL$2,415,542$0
Barack ObamaDIL$2,229,349$0
Mark PryorDAR$618,101$0
John "Jack" ReedDRI$367,283$0
Harry ReidDNV$1,159,522$0
Charles "Pat" RobertsRKS$193,578$0
John "Jay" RockefellerDWV$692,474$0
Ken SalazarDCO$1,607,318$0
Bernie SandersIVT$137,419$0
Chuck SchumerDNY$1,103,966$0
Jeff SessionsRAL$405,689$0
Richard ShelbyRAL$719,624$0
Gordon SmithROR$456,285$0
Olympia SnoweRME$150,485$0
Arlen SpecterDPA$2,410,330$0
Debbie StabenowDMI$1,268,154$0
Ted StevensRAK$250,591$0
John SununuRNH$263,214$0
Jon TesterDMT$545,958$0
John ThuneRSD$427,861$0
David VitterRLA$535,549$0
George VoinovichROH$556,349$0
John WarnerRVA$1,000$0
Jim WebbDVA$563,707$0
Sheldon WhitehouseDRI$744,218$0
Roger WickerRMS$350,355$0
Ron WydenDOR$263,757$0

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