Johnson welcomes the executive order “and will build on this progress in my administration,” he said in a statement. RELATED: Chicago’s Health Department Does Little To Deter Repeat Polluters, Report Finds Lightfoot touted the We Will Chicago plan, the 2022 Climate Action Plan, the Healthy Chicago 2025 plan, and $188 million in environmental investments through the Chicago Recovery Plan as “meaningful projects and policy changes” toward environmental justice she’s overseen during her four years in office. It also directs the city’s chief sustainability officer to hire a dedicated environmental justice coordinator, who will work to improve residents’ participation in and awareness of the city’s zoning, permitting and enforcement decisions.
1, outlining how each department will reform their policies and practices to “better protect environmental justice neighborhoods” from pollution and health burdens. The executive order also directs officials in the city’s housing, planning, health, and other departments to create a plan by Sept. Advocates and local leaders say the ordinance would help improve residents’ health in communities overburdened by pollution. Lightfoot directed health officials to propose a cumulative impact ordinance in 2021. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health. “With this, Chicago is reckoning with the impacts environmental justice communities face every day - and offering our City’s leadership a roadmap to improve health, opportunity and quality of life,” said Dr. Such an ordinance would require the city to consider both an industrial facility’s environmental impact and the environmental burden from nearby facilities before making zoning, permitting and enforcement decisions. RELATED: Air Pollution Harmful To Health Is Highest Along Lakefront, Highways, New Report Says Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivers her farewell address to a room of supporters at BUILD in Austin on May 8, 2023. The findings will inform leaders as they draft a cumulative impact ordinance, officials said. The assessment will identify neighborhoods most impacted by industry and pollution, officials said. “Now we pass the baton to the incoming administration and City Council and look forward to continued progress on these critical issues.” “While there are still years of work ahead, together we have laid the groundwork to remedy the harms caused by pollution and other burdens for generations of residents in environmental justice communities,” Lightfoot said in a statement. 1 and continue the working group overseeing that assessment, among other points. The mayor ordered city officials to complete a cumulative impact assessment by Sept.
Lightfoot signed an executive order Wednesday committing the city to environmental justice efforts and “making consideration of health and other community impacts a priority across departments and in City policies.” The two new executive orders will be effective once the Executive Council approves them.CHICAGO- In one of her final moves as mayor, Lori Lightfoot ordered city officials to center environmental justice and health in their decision-making, and Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson is pledging to continue that work after he takes office next week. The order also amends Executive Order 20-82, which pertains specifically to the 2020-21 school year. Walz also repealed executive orders related to expanded access to unemployment insurance (Executive Orders 20-05 and 20-102) and distance learning in schools (Executive Orders 20-41 and 20-57). That includes Executive Order 20-03, which allowed the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs to place visitation restrictions on Minnesota Veterans Homes. The other, Executive Order 21-16 rescinds five previous executive orders Walz says are no longer needed. The first order, Executive Order 21-15, prevents federal COVID-19 stimulus checks from being counted against eligibility for programs administered by the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
Tim Walz signed two executive orders on Friday related to the state’s COVID-19 response.
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