ACTIVISTS SAY EPA RELOCATION POLICY INCONSISTENT WITH SUPERFUND

A new study by civil rights activists claims that EPA's use of its Superfund relocation policy is discriminatory, finding that only three of 19 permanent relocation decisions have involved minority communities. The group says that EPA has failed to utilize its broad authority to relocate residents as part of a Superfund cleanup and urges the agency throw out its current policy and rewrite it based on input from civil rights and community organizations. While EPA officials say that such relocations...