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MassDEP officials describe Environmental Justice outreach and language-access services
Summary
Officials from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection outlined how the agency’s Environmental Justice office conducts outreach, assists limited-English households and directs community concerns to program staff, and pointed residents to an EJ map viewer for local language data.
Representatives of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection described the agency’s Environmental Justice outreach and language-access work and how residents can raise concerns and get information.
Denene Simpson, director of Environmental Justice at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, said the office’s mission is to connect residents in environmental-justice areas with MassDEP programs and activities. “As the director of EJ, my job is to ensure that the residents of the Commonwealth who live in EJ areas have access to MassDEP's programs…
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