The adverb equally is generally regarded as redundant when used in combination with as. In an earlier survey, 63 percent of the Usage Panel found the following examples unacceptably redundant: Experience is equally as valuable as theory. Equally as important is the desire to learn. To get rid of the redundancy, you must delete equally from the first example and as from the second. Solving this usage problem usually involves using as alone when making an explicit comparison and equally alone when you want the comparison to be implied.
