Greta Thunberg and AOC should be very excited to hear this!
Following the Orwellian "Disinformation Governance Board" formed last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice have just announced the creation of a "Department of Environmental Justice" which is meant to "secure environmental justice for all Americans."
From Fox News:
The Department of Justice announced the creation of a new Office of Environmental Justice that will serve as a "central hub" for the department's efforts to advance its "comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy."
The new office within the Department of Justice was announced on Thursday by Attorney General Merrick Garland and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan along with stating a "series of actions" that will be taken to "secure environmental justice for all Americans."
One of the objectives of the newly formed Office of Environmental Justice is to work with the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal investigative agencies to "develop or enhance investigatory agencies' protocols for assessing the environmental justice impacts during investigations."
So the DOJ and the EPA got together and had a baby so that the government can now start investigating and punishing people for "environmental" issues.
This is a disaster waiting to happen.
As part of the series of actions announced on Thursday, each U.S. Attorney's Office is being tasked to designate an environmental justice coordinator within their office, who will then identify "areas of environmental justice concern" in areas within their district. The environmental justice coordinator will also be tasked with creating and publicizing a procedure for individuals to report environmental justice concerns.
U.S. Attorneys and other Department of Justice components are also being encouraged as part of the plan to create "environmental enforcement task forces" that can be used as a tool to pursue environmental justice enforcement matters, according to the series of actions announced.
Garland said that the new Office of Environmental Justice will "prioritize the cases that will have the greatest impact on the communities most overburdened by environmental harm."
"Although violations of our environmental laws can happen anywhere, communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities often bear the brunt of the harm caused by environmental crime, pollution, and climate change," Garland said.
There's the Marxism!
"For far too long, these communities have faced barriers to accessing the justice they deserve. The Office of Environmental Justice will serve as the central hub for our efforts to advance our comprehensive environmental justice enforcement strategy. We will prioritize the cases that will have the greatest impact on the communities most overburdened by environmental harm."
Hey, I have a great idea!
Before we create any more brand new neo-Marxist bureaucracies with Newspeak names that have blind authority to charge people with crimes, maybe we should vote on them or have Congress create them???
How are these departments just able to produce new departments without any kind of vote?
I'm not alone in thinking this is a bad idea.
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With woke "ESG" scores coming down the line soon, this is clearly how they are going to enforce their environmental policies that aren't voted on and just made out of whole cloth.
You may think it's just a department, but up until a year ago, the CDC was just an agency that fought diseases!
You want to know what the death of the Republic looks like? Look no further than this exponential increase of executive power!
"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink." – 1984
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