{"id":1214572,"date":"2022-01-13T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214572"},"modified":"2022-01-13T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:34:28","slug":"environmentalists-rattled-after-top-white-house-climate-officials-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/environmentalists-rattled-after-top-white-house-climate-officials-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalists Rattled After Top White House Climate Officials Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenvironmentalists-rattled-after-top-white-house-climate-officials-resign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two unexpected resignations by senior White House climate officials have rattled environmental activists within and outside the administration, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>White House Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ) environmental justice director <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/07\/cecilia-martinez-white-house-climate-environmental-justice-joe-biden\/\">Cecilia Martinez<\/a> and CEQ public engagement director David Kieve have both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/meet-the-press\/blog\/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541\/ncrd1287232\">departed<\/a> the White House over the last week. In response, three top officials appointed to President Joe Biden\u2019s Environmental Justice Advisory Council wrote to White House chief of staff Ron Klain, asking for an explanation of how this affects administration\u2019s climate efforts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/white-house-environmental-justice-exits-526996\">according<\/a> to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a big blow to being able to believe in the administration\u2019s seriousness to its commitment of environmental justice,\u201d Maria Lopez-Nu\u00f1ez, a member of the council, told Politico. \u201cI have a lot of questions about what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two resignations gutted the White House climate office\u2019s environmental justice team, leaving just one official to focus on the issue, according to activists and council members interviewed by Politico. Just Martinez\u2019s deputy, Corey Solow, remains as an environmental justice official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorey is the only one left,\u201d advisory council member and executive director of ReGenesis Community Development Harold Mitchell Jr. told Politico. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/climate-change-noaa-nasa-joe-biden-global-warming\/\">(RELATED: 2021 Was Colder Than Recent Years But Followed Warming Trend, US Says)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7352365\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7352365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry answer questions during a press briefing at the White House on Jan. 27, 2021. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEverybody that environmental justice people were connected with are gone,\u201d Beverly Wright, the head of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, said, according to Politico. \u201cI\u2019m speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the White House has denied that Solow is the only White House official devoted to environmental justice, noting that CEQ Chair Brenda Mallory has made it a top priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work on Environmental Justice and Justice 40 doesn\u2019t revolve on any singular staffer \u2014 it\u2019s integrated in the all of government approach the President has championed and we look forward to announcing at some point soon additional personnel who will continue the great work that David and Cecilia have done in the first year of the administration,\u201d a White House spokesperson said in a statement, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Biden took office in January 2021, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/omb\/briefing-room\/2021\/07\/20\/the-path-to-achieving-justice40\/\">announced<\/a> the so-called Justice40 initiative, the goal of which is to deliver at least 40% of federal investments in clean energy and climate solutions to disadvantaged communities. Justice40 programs have included flood mitigation plans, drinking water protection, lead hazard reduction and plans to bring renewable energy to rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>In July, top White House climate officials said environmental policies \u201chave failed to adequately account for environmental injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has made clear that his Administration will chart a new and better course, one that puts environmental and economic justice at the center of all we do,\u201d the officials \u2014 Mallory, Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Shalanda Young and White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy \u2014 wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two unexpected resignations by senior White House climate officials have rattled environmental activists within and outside the administration, Politico reported.White House Council for Environmental Quality (CEQ) environmental justice director Cecilia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}