EPA Dismissal Of Rights Petition Raises Fears Over Discrimination Findings

Environmentalists and at least one Democratic senator are concerned that EPA's recent dismissal of a petition alleging Alabama regulators violated the Civil Rights Act (CRA) when they approved a landfill expansion to accept coal ash in a minority community suggests the agency will never make an affirmative finding of discrimination. The environmentalists say that the petition filed by resident of Uniontown, AL, under Title VI of the CRA was the “poster child” for environmental discrimination against poor and minority residents...