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The Environmental Protection Agency spent more than a year investigating whether Louisiana's oversight of industrial air emissions discriminated against Black residents. That ended in June without Louisiana agreeing to change
The Environmental Protection Agency spent more than a year investigating whether Louisiana's oversight of industrial air emissions discriminated against Black residents
It could have been an assault on one of the worst instances of environmental racism in our country's history.
Experts say when Louisiana challenged the investigation in court, federal officials may have worried that a loss would threaten their civil rights enforcement power.
For more than a year, the Environmental Protection Agency investigated whether Louisiana officials discriminated against Black residents by putting them