Environmental Permits - Requirements for Burden Analysis, Issuance and Renewal, and Public Participation (Cumulative Harms for Environmental Restoration for Improving Shared Health - CHERISH Our Communities Act)

Summary

The bill forces any applicant seeking a new or renewed individual environmental permit for a site inside an "at‑risk" census tract to submit a report on existing pollution and health burdens. The Department of the Environment must then decide whether the permit would cause or worsen those burdens and can deny the permit unless specific conditions are met. It also adds public‑participation steps such as community listening sessions and makes the department’s tentative findings part of the judicial‑review record.

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