EPA Invites Youth to Serve on Agency’s First-Ever National Environmental Youth Advisory Council

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency or EPA June 22 announced the formal establishment of the agency’s first-ever National Environmental Youth Advisory Council or NEYAC. The NEYAC will provide independent advice and recommendations to administrator Michael S. Regan on how to increase EPA’s efforts to address a range of environmental issues as they relate to youth communities. The NEYAC will provide perspective on how the impacts of climate change and other environmental harms affect youth communities. The administrator announced his intent to launch the youth council last June at the Austrian World Summit.

EPA is soliciting applications for youth to fill 16 vacancies on the NEYAC. Selected applicants will contribute to a balance of perspectives, backgrounds, and experience of the council and will be appointed by the Administrator. As a first-of-its-kind committee, all members of NEYAC will be between the ages of 16 and 29. 

As part of the agency’s commitment to centering environmental justice communities, at least 50% of the overall membership of NEYAC will come from, reside primarily in, and/or do most of their work in disadvantaged communities as defined by the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) as part of Justice40. 

Applications to the NEYAC are due by 11:59 p.m., Aug. 22, ET. To apply for appointment to the council, the following information is required:

Contact information 

Resume OR short biography OR qualification essay 

Statement of interest 

Media Project 

EPA will be hosting virtual application webinars on Zoom where the public can ask EPA staff questions. 

The webinars will be hosted at the following times: 

Time: 3 to 4 p.m., ET, June 30, Register here 12 to 1p.m., ET Aug. 7, Register here  

Details: EPA NEYAC webpage for more information on the council and to apply.