DPU Environmental Justice Strategy

The DPU’s Environmental Justice Strategy establishes principles to promote environmental justice across all of DPU’s proceedings. DPU’s EJ Strategy outlines a number of new DPU environmental justice-related initiatives and commitments:

EJ Strategy

• Establish a new policy on enhanced notice procedures to increase awareness of and public participation in DPU proceedings. 
• Include more plain language in its legal notices.
• Set standards for plain language summaries of petitioner filings with the DPU.
• Require investor-owned utility companies to provide bill impact analyses on Environmental Justice populations in base distribution rate proceedings and track and report on environmental justice-related performance metrics.
• Develop a webpage with helpful information for Environmental Justice populations,
• Establish an internal Environmental Justice team to regularly review and update our environmental justice-related practices and summarize public comments in Department Orders.
• Appoint a new Public Access Coordinator as an Environmental Justice point of contact.
• Provide more educational materials for the public on our website.
• Promote staff training on language access and environmental justice matters