1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Environmental Justice Act of 2017 . 2. Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to require Federal agencies to address and eliminate the disproportionate environmental and human health impacts on communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities; (2) to ensure that all Federal agencies develop and enforce rules, regulations, guidance, standards, policies, plans, and practices that promote environmental justice; (3) to increase cooperation and require coordination among Federal agencies in achieving environmental justice; (4) to provide to communities of color, indigenous communities, and low-income communities greater access to public information and opportunities for participation in decisionmaking affecting human health and the environment; (5) to mitigate the inequitable distribution of the burdens and benefits of Federal programs having significant impacts on human health and the environment; (6) to require consideration of cumulative impacts in permitting decisions; (7) to clarify congressional intent to afford rights of action pursuant to certain statutes and common law claims