Peggy Shepard, founder and executive director of Region 2 TCTAC WE ACT for Environmental Justice, spoke to E&E News about presidential candidate Kamal Harris' potential as an ally for environmental justice issues. Shepard is a co-chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, which has been highly critical of the Biden administration’s support for industrial carbon management, but she said she is hopeful that Harris would prioritize helping communities historically burdened by industrial pollution. “I think the current administration, like many others, weighs the benefits and the challenges between the constituencies that they are subject to. Sometimes community considerations are uppermost, and other times they’re not,” Shepard said.
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