Civil Rights Petition Pressures EPA To Address Equity In Texas Air Permits

Environmentalists’ new petition asking EPA to force Texas air regulators to conduct formal reviews of environmental justice (EJ) issues in air permitting builds pressure on the agency to make good on its promises to improve enforcement of Civil Rights Act protections, presaging a potential fight between the Lone Star State and EPA. In a June 28 petition , a coalition of community and environmental groups including Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), Sierra Club and others says that the Texas Commission on...