The EPA announced on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, that will hold a three-day symposium in Washington, D.C., on March 17-19 to look for opportunities to better assess and address environmental justice in environmental policy and regulatory decision making. Much of the symposium, titled Strengthening Environmental Justice Research and Decision Making: A Symposium on the Science of Disproportionate Environmental Health Impacts, will be available as a Webcast at www.scgcorp.com/envirjusticesym/webcast.asp .

EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Peggy Shepard, executive firector for WEACT for Environmental Justice will speak at the opening session of the symposium on March 17 starting at 8:30 a.m.

Leaders from across the country including researchers, academics, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, government officials, tribal leaders, Environmental Justice activists and community experts, among others will participate in this discussion, according to the agency's release.