Environmental racism case: EPA rejects Alabama town's claim over toxic landfill

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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