评估代理机构报告的正义40计划的进度

Question: What do family game nights and federal government initiatives have in common?

答：成功启动比成功完成的工作要容易得多。

协调多个利益相关者与他们的独特利益和观点相关联 - 一个共同的目标是很困难的。在FAS，我们尚未弄清楚如何最好地解决家庭比赛之夜。但是我们发现，对于涉及许多机构的复杂联邦倡议，花时间退后一步，评估进度通常会为持续的未来成功铺平道路。我们还认识到，除非专门任务和资源，否则行政部门机构和办公室通常缺乏自己做到这一点的能力。

这就是为什么今天，FAS正在对政府的代理商报告的进展进行独立评估正义40倡议—a landmark whole-of-government effort to ensure that 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized, underserved, and overburdened by pollution.

The complete assessment is freely availablehere。A supplemental spreadsheet to the assessment is availablehere。

评估重点介绍175 Justice40建议issued by the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC) in May 2021. Key takeaways include:

• 联邦机构报告了WHEJAC一半的Justice40建议的切实进展，例如reducing exposure to leadandinvesting in the LIHEAP programto lower home energy bills.
  • 虽然这些进步是值得称道的,它是重要的t to note that agency-reported progress does not always match the lived reality of stakeholders. There is an opportunity and a need for the WHEJAC and federal agencies to co-develop strategies for tracking Justice40 implementation that incorporate multiple perspectives (e.g., from government officials, impacted communities, local leaders, and independent experts).
• Agencies struggled to implement a quarter of the recommendations due to barriers such as lack of statutory authority, lack of resourcing, or lack of clarity on what particular actions would constitute implementation. The WHEJAC should consider revisiting and revising these recommendations to improve actionability.
• 与CEQ合作的白宫环境司法委员会（IAC）有明确的途径，以促进近期的WHEJAC建议的近期进展，这些建议在很大程度上尚未实现。同时，有许多高利息的主题领域 - 包括清洁运输和运输，城市林业和城市绿化，以及气候缓解和弹性的各个方面，因为Whejac应该考虑建立其他建议。

下面提供了评估的其他背景和见解。

Whejac和Justice40倡议

President Biden launched the Justice40 Initiative within days of taking office in January 2021.行政命令（E.O.）14008, which created the Initiative, also established the first-ever White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC). The WHEJAC comprises two dozen experts in environmental justice, climate change, disaster preparedness, racial inequity, and related fields.

WHEJAC的使命是向环境质量委员会主席（CEQ）和白宫环境司法跨机构跨委员会（IAC）提供建议和建议，“关于如何增加联邦政府解决当前和历史性环境不公的努力”。Whejac的第一套建议，于2021年5月发布，其中包括175个专门针对正义40倡议。2022年5月，CEQ交付了需要报告向国会大会，其中包括来自每个联邦机构的回应。

Assessing agency-reported progress on Justice40

To inform the WHEJAC’s future efforts, and to support ongoing implementation of the Justice40 Initiative, we at FAS conducted an independent assessment of the WHEJAC’s Justice40 recommendations and CEQ’s corresponding report. We emphasize that this assessment was scoped to elucidate key insights and trends from agency-reported progress on Justice40, and did not include independent verification of agency responses. The assessment includes five sections:

• Section 1 (Summary of agency-reported progress)describes how we evaluated agency-reported progress on the WHEJAC’s Justice40 recommendations. We found that agencies detailed tangible progress for about half (50%) and did not illustrate tangible progress for about a quarter (24%) of the recommendations. Implementation status could not be assessed for the remainder. The assessment supplement maps each recommendation to its corresponding agency response(s) and to its corresponding quantitative and qualitative evaluations from FAS.
• 第2节（改善现有建议）确定正义40由于（i）缺乏法定权限，（ii）对特定机构或机构的建议不当分配，（iii）缺乏资源和/或（iv）含糊不清的语言，因此无法完全实施。。本节还提供有关Whejac希望如何重新访问和/或加强相关建议的建议。
• 第3节（优先考虑未实现建议的进度）重点介绍了IAC可能希望将其视为未来进步的优先事项的Justice40建议。FAS基于对（i）建议可行性的整体评估选择了这些建议，（ii）表示代理人愿意采取其他响应措施，以及（iii）IAC在促进实施方面是否有明确的作用。
• 第4节（提出其他建议）识别高利益主题，这些主题很少或没有建议。随着它继续工作，Whejac可能希望考虑为与这些主题有关的代理行动提出其他建议。这些主题包括：
  • 清洁能源超越太阳能
  • Clean transit and transportation
  • Urban forestry and urban greening
  • Drinking-water pollutants beyond lead
  • Ensuring environmental justice for migrant and seasonal workers
  • 气候缓解和弹性的各个方面
  • 语言隔离
• 第5节（实施重点）提请人们注意正义40建议，其中FAS确定了实施方面特别值得注意的进展。这些亮点既值得称赞，又表明了动量的领域，即Whejac和IAC可以利用跟进工作。

Read the full assessment:

• Assessment of progress on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council (WHEJAC)’s Justice40 recommendations
  • Assessment
  • Supplement