The push could lead to a change in EPA policy if Donald Trump retakes power in January.
Smoke billows from one of the many chemical plants that make up"Cancer Alley" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 12, 2013.Echoing arguments similar to those used by the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action, Republican attorneys general from 23 states petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this week to stop taking race into account when regulating pollution.
“The fact is, many of the states that have signed the petition have historically allowed these harmful facilities to be placed in predominantly Black and brown communities, without regard for the health and safety of residents,” Segura said. “These decades-old Title VI regulations are critical tools for the federal government to use to ensure that funding is not used to perpetuate this toxic legacy.
After uncovering information that regulators in that state had not done enough to inform the public about the risk of cancer-causing chemicals coming from the Denka chloroprene plant in LaPlace, the EPA, a key component of wetsuits. It is located in a majority-Black ZIP code in southern Louisiana that is part of the industry-heavy region dubbed “Cancer Alley.”
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