A new salvo in the fight to protect the “holy grail” of environmental justice

Grist
By Lylla YounesSep 20, 2024, 4:30 am178 pts
In 1979, a woman named Margaret Bean decided to challenge the Texas state government’s decision to grant a permit for a new landfill in her neighborhood on the outskirts of Houston. The area was 70 percent nonwhite, and Bean and her fellow residents alleged that the permit fell into a pattern of setting up…

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