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Posted inEnvironmental Justice, Denied

Rare discrimination finding by EPA civil-rights office

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s civil-rights office has made a rare finding of discrimination, saying the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality treated African American residents of Flint unfairly during the permitting of a power plant more than two decades ago. In a letter dated Jan. 19, the last full day of the Obama administration, the […]