Q&A: How White Flight and Environmental Injustice Led to the Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis

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By By James BruggersSep 9, 2022, 9:00 am167 pts
Heather McTeer Toney, the former regional EPA administrator, talks about the factors—climate change among them—that led to the water-system failure in Mississippi’s capital city. By James Bruggers Mississippi has found itself in a dire position, after a flood left the state’s capital city, Jackson,…

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