Report: Environmental agencies are violating civil rights laws — and the EPA is letting them

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By Naveena SadasivamOct 6, 2020, 3:58 am270 pts
In the early 1990s, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality held a series of public hearings to consider whether or not to grant a permit to the Genesee Power Station, a wood-burning facility that was to be built in a low-income, predominantly Black neighborhood in Flint. The hearings were supposed to…

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