ACTIVISTS FEAR WHOLESALE ATTACK ON ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RULES

Environmentalists and academics say the wording of the Supreme Court's April 24 ruling stripping citizens of judicial recourse under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act appears to be an invitation to industry and states to bring a larger, and potentially more devastating attack on federal rules aimed at eliminating unintentional discrimination. Such an attack, if upheld by the high court, would cripple the environmental justice movement, since most cases of environmental discrimination cannot be based on clear evidence...