Environmental racism case: EPA rejects Alabama town's claim over toxic landfill
by Oliver Milman in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#3HF1Z)
Agency reports 'insufficient evidence' that Civil Rights Act was breached in case of huge landfill near mostly African American town
The US Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed a civil rights case brought by residents of a small, overwhelmingly African American town in Alabama who have spent much of the past decade battling a toxic landfill they blame for causing a myriad of physical and mental illnesses.
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