The Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice (EJ IWG) established the NEPA Committee in 2012 pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding on Environmental Justice and Executive Order 12898 (2011). The Memorandum identified the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as an area of focus for inclusion in the agencies’ environmental justice efforts and directed efforts to “include interagency collaboration.” The NEPA Committee seeks to improve the effective, efficient and consistent consideration of environmental justice issues in the NEPA process through the sharing of best practices, lessons learned, research, analysis, training, consultation, and other experiences of federal NEPA practitioners.

In its May 2021 report, the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council lists CCS as the kind of project that “will not help communities.” (See pg. 59)