Judge bars EPA from enforcing Civil Rights Act provision in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

[Neuromancer]

A federal judge on Tuesday night blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act’s disparate-impact requirements against Louisiana agencies.

Judge James D. Cain, a Trump appointee, ruled against residents of a stretch of parishes along the Mississippi River known as “Cancer Alley,” an epicenter of petrochemical manufacturing in the U.S. with disproportionately high rates of cancer.

Judge bars EPA from enforcing Civil Rights Act provision in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

A federal judge on Tuesday night blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) from enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act’s disparate-impact requirement…

thehill.com

Btw:

Cancer Alley had, and continues to have a disproportionate number of black citizens compared to the rest of the nation (forty percent of the population living in the Alley are black, compared to twelve percent nationwide), which, considering its original dubbing of “Plantation Country”, is unsurprising.

Cancer Alley

www.keele.ac.uk

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Damn. Between decisions like this one and the SC potentially discarding the Chevron deference, I think this is it for meaningful Environmental Justice in this country. Trump's federal court and SC appointments really fukked us.

 

[Richard Glidewell]

Is only going to get worse.

 

[ORDER_66]

Fix is in...

 

[BaggerofTea]

Fix is in...

Your dumbass in these threads.


Irony so thick it can cut through chemical waste frozen at absolute zero.

 

[BaggerofTea]

People have over thrown governments over far less

 

[Lexington Steele]

Damn. Between decisions like this one and the SC potentially discarding the Chevron deference, I think this is it for meaningful Environmental Justice in this country. Trump's federal court and SC appointments really fukked us.

Late stage capitalism is ripping the copper wiring out of the walls.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

Capitalism is ripping this country at the seams in nearly every facet. You can't list a single thing that isnt corrupt.

 

[BaggerofTea]

Capitalism is ripping this country at the seams in nearly every facet. You can't list a single thing that isnt corrupt.

No, fear.


Because if it wasn't capitalism, it would be communism.

What you have are psychopaths who need to removed by any means possible

 

[MajesticLion]

Wickedness.

 

[omnifax]

No, fear.


Because if it wasn't capitalism, it would be communism.

What you have are psychopaths who need to removed by any means possible

While I hear what you are saying there is a legit argument that this is where capitalism leads no matter what you do.

 

[BaggerofTea]

While I hear what you are saying there is a legit argument that this is where capitalism leads no matter what you do.

Of course.

Capitalism benefits psychopaths a lot.


Feeds directly to the need to manipulate and control people.

 

[Chrishaune]

While I hear what you are saying there is a legit argument that this is where capitalism leads no matter what you do.

We can tell you've never been to a communist country.

How about they all don't work......

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

Damn. Between decisions like this one and the SC potentially discarding the Chevron deference, I think this is it for meaningful Environmental Justice in this country. Trump's federal court and SC appointments really fukked us.

..............and will for a while. Unfortunately most of those judges will be around for a while.

 

[BaggerofTea]

We can tell you've never been to a communist country.

How about they all don't work......

Do be fair.

You haven't either.


No communist country has existed because the "communist" revolutionaries immediately become capitalists once they get into power