Julian is an environmental Attorney specializing in legislative, regulatory, and implementation issues in the water policy arena and how they impact communities who have shouldered disproportionate pollution burdens and historical disinvestment. Julian Gonzalez serves as senior legislative counsel for Earthjustice’s Healthy Communities team in Washington, D.C., where he is the lead lobbyist on water policy. Julian partners with community members and NGOs across the country to push for laws and regulations ensuring that everyone has access to clean water, and ensuring that all of our rivers, streams, and lakes have strong protections from pollution. Before joining Earthjustice, Julian worked for GreenLatinos, handling water and oceans policy development, advocacy, and outreach to help ensure Latinx perspectives on water issues were reflected in Washington. Talk to Julian about congressional politics, policies, mechanics, processes, Legislation, Regulation and guidance, particularly from EPA Office of Water, the intersection of racial justice and water policy, how to reframe issues in the water space as justice issues, Historical inequality with regards to water infrastructure, Water-related litigation.