That’s right, the Department of Homeland Security is diverting resources to engage in the left’s touchy-feely “environmental justice” nonsense.
(Washington Examiner) — 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.”
Efforts to implement environmental justice will influence “our own operations, financial assistance to state and local governments, and [DHS’] regulatory permitting activities,” DHS explained in the draft strategy.