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Watch live: Biden delivers remarks on environmental justice

President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Biden's six-day trip to South Korea and Japan aims to build rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders. Biden will also be trying to send an unmistakable message to China that Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine should give Beijing pause about its own saber-rattling in the Pacific. Biden departs Thursday and is set to meet newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Biden on Friday is set to tout the launch of a new Office of Environmental Justice in the White House, aimed at helping address longstanding public health threats from pollution.

The White House has described the new office as a coordinator among various agencies, advocating for measures that protect local resources, including research as well as accountability for the federal government itself.

Biden will be joined by advocates and community leaders at the event in the White House Rose Garden.

The program is slated to start at 2:15 p.m. ET.

Watch the live video above.