EPA Agrees To Investigate Civil Rights Claim Over North Carolina Hog Farms

January 19, 2022
EPA has accepted a petition alleging that North Carolina officials are violating the Civil Rights Act by allowing discriminatory pollution impacts from hog farms in the state in the latest investigation by the agency’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office (ECRCO), which is promising beefed up enforcement powers. The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) filed the complaint last fall on behalf of a local chapter of the NAACP and the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign. EPA Jan. 13 accepted the complaint...


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