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EPA Launches Nationwide Environmental Justice Climate Corps
New partnership between EPA and AmeriCorps announced during Climate Week NYC
will expand pathways into environmental justice careers as part of President
Biden’s American Climate Corps
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EPA Launches Nationwide Environmental Justice Climate Corps 
New partnership between EPA and AmeriCorps announced during Climate Week NYC
will expand pathways into environmental justice careers as part of President
Biden’s American Climate Corps
LENEXA, KAN. (SEPT. 25, 2024) – Today, September 25, in commemoration of
Climate Week NYC, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and AmeriCorps
announced the Environmental Justice Climate Corps, a new partnership launched
as part of President Biden’s American Climate Corps to open doors for people
to serve in careers that benefit disadvantaged and other low-income
communities.
This partnership will support more than 250 AmeriCorps VISTA members
nationwide over three years, with each new participating member completing a
one-year term of service. This historic initiative is the largest
environmental partnership in AmeriCorps’ history and EPA’s first
nationwide service effort. The Environmental Justice Climate Corps represents
the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing commitment to tackling the climate
crisis and advancing environmental justice. It also reaffirms the
Administration’s commitment to creating pathways to middle class jobs and a
step to implement the Biden-Harris Administration’s Executive Order to
Promote Good Jobs by supporting workforce development through the American
Climate Corps.
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan will announce the program alongside
AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith during their upcoming Climate Week NYC 2024
Solutions House panel.
“Our partnership is a first-of-its-kind effort within the federal government
to expand pathways into environmental justice careers,” said EPA
Administrator Michael S. Regan. “This program will create opportunities for
young people through President Biden’s American Climate Corps that will help
folks in overburdened communities access and benefit from historic funding
secured under the President’s Investing in America agenda.”
“Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately
impacted by the most severe harms of climate change – whether that’s air
pollution, extreme temperatures, or flooding,” said Michael D. Smith, CEO,
AmeriCorps. “Through this groundbreaking partnership with EPA, we will
target resources to underserved communities where they are needed most, while
putting hundreds of young people from those communities on a path to
environmental justice careers.”
Environmental Justice Climate Corps members will be paid a living allowance
and reimbursed for selected living expenses. In total, this allowance is
equivalent to receiving more than $25 per hour throughout their year of
service. Members will obtain the benefits of AmeriCorps VISTA
service—including the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, which is valued at
$7,395 in FY24, and streamlined pathways into certain federal jobs—as well
as gain mentorship and professional development opportunities. This program
aims to recruit participants from communities disproportionately impacted by
environmental justice challenges and seeks to recruit individuals with an
interest in environmental justice careers.
The Environmental Justice Climate Corps is part of the Biden-Harris
Administration’s American Climate Corps—a workforce training and service
initiative that will ensure more young people have access to the skills-based
training necessary for good-paying careers in the clean energy and climate
resilience economy. The American Climate Corps will mobilize a new, diverse
generation of more than 20,000 Americans in the initiative’s first year,
putting them to work conserving and restoring our lands and waters, bolstering
community resilience, deploying clean energy, implementing energy efficient
technologies, and advancing environmental justice—all while creating
pathways to high-quality, good-paying clean energy and climate resilience jobs
in the public and private sectors after they complete their paid training
program.
Applications for the Environmental Justice Climate Corps will open in early
2025, with a goal for its first cohort to start later that year. To sign up
for updates on the program, visit EPA’s website.
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