Besieged to Bolstered? Webinar on the Biden Environmental Transition, April 14, 2:30-4:00 pm EST

On Wednesday, April 14, 2021, from 2:30-4PM Eastern, EDGI will hold a webinar on the Biden environmental transition, featuring speakers from the Union of Concerned Scientists, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, the newly formed White House Advisory Committee for Environmental Justice, Public Employees for Environmental Justice, and the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative. 

We are fast approaching the first hundred days of a new administration that has set about turning campaign promises on the environment into action. So how have they been doing? How do their plans and accomplishments so far stack up against those of their predecessors? What does the road ahead for the Biden administration look like? And what do leaders and specialists in environmental enforcement, environmental justice, and scientific integrity hope for moving forward? 

Come join us for next Wednesday’s webinar, From Besieged to Bostered? The Biden Transition, where these speakers answer these questions, each from their distinctive perspective:  

• Leif Frederickson and Jessica Varner are historians from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) and architects of EDGI’s new A People’s EPA website, which compiles plans for and news of the Environmental Protection Agency’s transition. They will compare what we’ve seen from the Biden environmental transition with predecessors—and what these histories can tell us about the possibilities ahead.   

• Timothy Whitehouse, director at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, will talk about what his group’s work with whistleblowers reveals about the new administration’s prospects. He’ll look at pollution enforcement, chemicals management, and scientific integrity complaints and what these suggest about the way ahead.  

• Peggy Shepard, co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, the iconic New York-based group, will also speak. Also recently appointed to the White House Advisory Committee for Environmental Justice, she will reflect on the administration’s on-going efforts to highlight environmental justice.  

• Jacob Carter, a leading researcher with the Union for Concerned Scientists, will discuss administration moves so far to bolster the integrity of federal science, after myriad moves in the Trump administration to undermine it. He’ll assess progress made on UCS’s recommendations on this front, as well as further actions that may be needed.  

A discussion will follow, during which listeners’ questions will be welcome. Register here.