EPA Wins Support For Legal Strategy In Louisiana Civil Rights Lawsuit

Louisiana environmental justice (EJ) advocates and other observers are generally backing EPA’s strategy to concede its loss of authority to enforce “disparate impacts” under civil rights law in Louisiana, saying officials understand the severity of the situation when they opted not to appeal a preliminary injunction preventing disparate impact enforcement. Joy Banner, co-founder and co-director of the Descendants Project, which seeks to help the Black descendant communities in Louisiana river parishes, tells Inside EPA that it makes sense that...