23 GOP State AGs Petition EPA To Ease Civil Rights Disparate Impact Rules

Florida Attorney General (AG) Ashley Moody (R), joined by 22 other GOP AGs, is petitioning EPA to weaken its longstanding rules requiring states to alleviate disparate impacts as part of compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, a measure that would expand a recent court injunction barring EPA from enforcing the rules in Louisiana. The April 16 petition charges that EPA has unlawfully exceeded its authority in an effort aimed at implementing the Biden administration’s environmental justice (EJ)...