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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that accused a south Louisiana parish of using land use policies to guide industries that pollute into communities with majority-Black populations.
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A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit alleging St. James Parish used discriminatory land use policies to concentrate polluting industries in Black neighborhoods.
A federal lawsuit alleging that St. James Parish’s industrial land-use policies have concentrated petrochemical plants near the parish’s Black communities was dismissed on procedural grounds earlier this month.