The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it found “insufficient evidence” that racial discrimination shaped decisions made by two Mississippi agencies about water system funding for the state’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson. The EPA’s Office of External Civil Rights Compliance issued findings this week.
FILE - EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan, right, addresses a roundtable of Jackson -area businesspeople, community leaders, residents and educators, as Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, left, listens, Nov. 15, 2022, at Jackson State University, in Jackson , Miss. The EPA said Monday, May 6, 2024, that it found “insufficient evidence” that racial discrimination shaped decisions made by two Mississippi agencies about water system funding for the majority-Black city of Jackson .
The Associated Press on Thursday sent email to the national NAACP about the EPA’s findings and a spokesperson for the civil rights organization did not immediately provide a comment. The EPA wrote that “funding for Jackson did not decrease as the racial composition of Jackson changed during the period analyzed” and the analysis found “no statistically significant relationship between loan amount and race across the state over time.”
“Although Jackson falls on the lower end of per capita funding ... there was no significant relationship between loan amounts per person and race over time,” the EPA said.
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