The Council on Environmental Quality The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) coordinates Federal environmental efforts and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental policies and initiatives.
CEQ was established within the Executive Office of the President by Congress as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and additional responsibilities were provided by the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970.
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President Biden Delivers Remarks on Earth Day
Today, on #EarthDay, President Biden will sign an Executive Order to expand his Administration’s historic and bold efforts to tackle the climate crisis, make our nation more resilient to extreme weather, and strengthen local economies.
New actions will protect against wildfire threats, support local economies, and reduce climate pollution Today, on Earth Day, President Biden will sign an
One year ago today, Chair Brenda Mallory was sworn in by the Senate as the first Black woman and 12th Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. Since then, Chair Mallory has traveled across the country to highlight opportunities through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and key initiatives, like Justice40 and America the Beautiful. She has helped to coordinate and advance the Biden-Harris administration’s environmental policy agenda through meaningful engagements with elected federal, state and local leaders, Tribes, stakeholders, and many other communities.
We announced a series of public listening sessions and training webinars on the beta version of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST).
The CEJST will help Federal agencies identify disadvantaged communities for the purposes of the Justice40 Initiative—a signature initiative of the Biden-Harris Administration that seeks to provide 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain Federal investments to disadvantaged communities. The current version of the tool is in a public beta form and will be updated based on public feedback and research. In addition to submitting written comments through the Federal Register, the public can also provide feedback directly on the CEJST website.
Check out the schedule below. For more information and to register for these virtual sessions, go to: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/2022/03/03/ceq-announces-public-listening-sessions-and-training-webinars-on-draft-climate-and-economic-justice-screening-tool/
Training Webinars on beta version of CEJST
- Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 4pm ET.
- Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 4pm ET.
- Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 4pm.
Public Listening Sessions on beta version of CEJST
- Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 4pm ET.
- Friday, April 15, 2022 at 4pm ET.
The beta version of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool can be found at https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov.
Public Engagement Sessions to Gather Feedback on Screening Tool that Will Help Federal Agencies Ensure that the Benefits of Federal Programs are Reaching
White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory and White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse join The 19th News Represents: Black History Month Conversation. Tune in!
Today, the White House Council on Environmental Quality released a beta version of the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST), a major step toward addressing current and historic environmental injustices and fulfilling a key campaign promise from President Biden.
Check it out: https://screeningtool.geoplatform.gov/
Screening Tool Will Help Federal Agencies Ensure that the Benefits of Federal Programs are Reaching Disadvantaged Communities Today, the White House
White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory joined U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Congressman Bennie G. Thompson this week in honoring individuals and events in Mississippi that advanced the Civil Rights Movement, and highlighting the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to telling America’s story.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today visited several communities and sites in Mississippi to honor individuals and events that advanced the Civil Rights Movement.
JUST IN: The Biden-Harris administration is teaming up with states, cities, labor, and industry to launch the Building Performance Standards Coalition, a first-of-its-kind partnership between 33 state and local governments dedicated to delivering cleaner, healthier, and more affordable buildings.
New Federal, State, and Local Action to Support Energy Efficient Buildings, Create Jobs, and Lower Costs Today, President Biden announced during his
During the first year of the Biden-Harris administration, the Council on Environmental Quality made historic progress to address climate change, advance environmental justice, conserve public lands and waters, boost clean energy investments, and strengthen Federal sustainability.
Learn more about the steps we took to advance these key environmental priorities.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is working to advance five major environmental priorities of the Biden-Harris Administration:
Want to learn how the Federal government is leveraging its scale and procurement power to drive clean, healthy, and resilient operations? Read more: https://www.sustainability.gov/federalsustainabilityplan/index.html
The Federal Sustainability Plan sets out a range of medium- and long-term targets and actions designed to deliver an emissions reduction pathway consistent with the 1.5 ambition of the Paris Agreement. Click on the icons below to learn how the Federal Government will achieve each goal.
ICYMI: The White House Council on Environmental Quality, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Department of Commerce released their first annual progress report outlining their collective work to pursue the first-ever national conservation goal established by President Biden through the #AmericatheBeautiful initiative.
The report highlights steps the Biden-Harris Administration has taken over the past year to support locally-led and voluntary efforts to conserve, connect, and restore lands and waters across the nation that sustain the health of our communities, power local economies, and help combat climate change.
Progress Report Highlights Land and Water Projects Underway as U.S. Pursues First-Ever National Conservation Goal Today, the Biden-Harris Administration
Today, Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory and National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy will participate in the White House Tribal Nations Summit on a panel with Tribal leaders to discuss climate change impacts and solutions in Indian Country. The Summit is an opportunity for the Administration to celebrate the significant progress we have already made to promote public safety and protect Tribal lands, respect Tribal treaty rights and Indigenous knowledge, and build a stronger Nation-to-Nation relationship.
Tune in at 11:00am EST at the link below 📺
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61gU9HQP_0Y
The White House and members of the Biden-Harris administration will host the second day of the 2021 Tribal Nations Summit. The Summit brings together officia...
ICYMI: Here's a run-down of progress of the first-ever National Climate Task Force. https://www.whitehouse.gov/climate/
President Biden’s Whole-of-Government Effort to Tackle the Climate Crisis “This is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths, where dealing with
ICYMI: This month, we launched the America the Beautiful Interagency Working Group. Co-chaired by Brenda Mallory, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. This group will help deliver on President Biden’s #AmericatheBeautiful initiative, a locally-led, nationally-scaled effort to conserve and restore at least 30 percent of our nation’s lands and waters by 2030. https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/2021/08/10/readout-of-white-house-america-the-beautiful-interagency-working-group/
Today, the White House launched the America the Beautiful Interagency Working Group (IWG). Co-chaired by Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Brenda Mallory, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo, the working group will coo...
Last week, Chair Brenda Mallory joined Climate Power in Dearborn, Michigan for their #ClimateActionNow: Great American Build Tour to discuss President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative and the Build Back Better Agenda. Watch the full event here: https://youtu.be/W_d-1WWi6LM
Tune in as Chair Mallory talks American the Beautiful!
During the fourth National Climate Task Force meeting, Chair Mallory outlined how voluntary, locally-led conservation efforts through the American the Beautiful initiative help harness the power of nature to combat climate change. Read more here:
Biden Administration Mounts Whole-of-Government Response to Address Extreme Heat Impacting Nearly Half of U.S. and Boosting Climate Resilience Today,
Just in: White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory shares her take on #GreatOutdoorsMonth and #NationalOceanMonth. Check it out:
By: Chair Brenda Mallory Happy Great Outdoors Month and National Ocean Month! It is great to see so many Americans celebrating by taking time to
This week, we honor and recognize public servants in our nation’s Federal, Tribal, state, and local governments for their continued dedication and service. Thanks for all the work you do to serve our communities. #PublicServiceRecognitionWeek
We’re all in this together. The U.S. has joined forces with Canada to cut emissions from our respective national governmental operations. https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/the-governments-of-the-united-states-and-canada-announce-new-greening-government-initiative/
WASHINGTON – Today, in conjunction with President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, the United States and Canada announced
Happy Earth Day! Did you know that CEQ was established 51 years ago, just a few months before the very first Earth Day? Today, we recommit to tackling the climate crisis with the urgency it demands and providing a healthy planet for generations to come. Check out what Chair Mallory has to say on 'Renewing the Pursuit of Environmental Quality.'
https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/renewing-the-pursuit-of-environmental-quality/
Happy Earth Day! As the newly-confirmed Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), a White House agency that was created just months before the
Please join us in welcoming Brenda Mallory as CEQ’s 12th Chair! https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/14/ceq-welcomes-brenda-mallory-as-new-chair/
WASHINGTON – Today, in a bipartisan vote, the United States Senate confirmed President Biden’s choice to lead the Council on Environmental Quality
Every Kid in a Park
Great news! Seven federal agencies signed an interagency commitment to continue the Every Kid in a Park initiative for the next five years. A huge thanks to the President, First Lady, and all of the agencies who have made this possible!
Read more in the White House celebratory blog: https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/12/15/celebrating-every-kid-park or the Let's Move post: http://www.letsmove.gov/blog/2016/12/15/every-kid-park-program-will-reach-every-school-age-child-us-within-12-years
ICYMI: New report outlines path forward for building climate resilient communities: huff.to/2ercsFbIC via The Huffington Post
In the last decade, extreme weather and wildfires cost the federal government $357 billion.
Check out how we’re taking action to protect & restore the Puget Sound watershed → http://bit.ly/2efa1Y1
Today, we're announcing new steps to protect and restore the Puget Sound watershed.
ICYMI: Yesterday, President Obama created the the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean! The new Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument will protect fragile deep-sea ecosystems off the coast of New England. go.wh.gov/EYjFHZ
"If we’re going to leave our children with oceans like the ones that were left to us, we’re going to have to act." —President Obama speaking today after designating the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, the first ever in the Atlantic Ocean. Since taking office, President Obama has protected more land and water than any U.S. president in history: go.wh.gov/EYjFHZ
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Last week, President Barack Obama announced the Administration’s action plan, under the America's Great Outdoors initiative, to achieve lasting conservation of the outdoor spaces that power our nation’s economy, shape our culture, and build our outdoor traditions. This initiative seeks to reinvigorate our approach to conservation and reconnect Americans, especially young people, with the lands and waters that are used for farming and ranching, hunting and fishing, and for families to spend quality time together. Recognizing that many of these places and resources are under intense pressure, the President established the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative last April to work with the American people in developing a conservation and recreation agenda that makes sense for the 21st century. This report is the product of 51 listening sessions across the nation—21 specifically with young people—consisting of more than 10,000 participants spanning all ages and backgrounds, plus more than 100,000 comments from citizens across the nation sharing with us your priorities for the lands and waters that you know best. We built this plan with your input and your involvement doesn't stop there. On March 3, 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and CEQ Chair Sutley will continue the conversation by hosting the first America’s Great Outdoors live chat. You can join by video before the chat or by Facebook during the chat. You can post your YouTube video questions by responding to the video above, or by sending your questions to [email protected]. To submit by Facebook during the live chat, sign on to our Facebook chat application on Thursday March 3rd at 4:30 pm (EST). We look forward to talking to you!
On December 22, 2010, President Obama signed a repeal of "Don't Ask, Don’t Tell," putting an end to a destructive policy that has forced brave Americans to lie about who they are for the privilege of serving their country. I am proud to be part of an Administration that fights to strengthen the foundation of equality in this country. I am also proud to be one among many openly gay members of the Obama Administration. In my youth, I could not imagine a future for myself as an openly gay adult. Today, I am the principal environmental advisor to the President of the United States of America. And I am openly gay with supportive family, co-workers and friends. I want all le***an, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth to hear my story, and the story of others like me. Several White House staff and I have recorded a message as part of the It Gets Better Project, a national campaign to provide support to LGBT youth. Our message is this: You are not alone. We have walked down the path you are walking now, and we know how it feels. And we can tell you, it WILL get better. Nancy Sutley is Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality
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