'Just racist': EPA cuts will hit black and Hispanic communities the hardest
by Oliver Milman in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#2EME1)
Proposal would remove environmental justice office, tasked with bridging gap in pollution in black, Hispanic and low-income areas and wealthier white ones
Planned cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency are set to fall heaviest upon communities of color across the US that already suffer disproportionately from toxic pollution, green groups have warned.
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