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EPA closes discrimination probes into Jackson water crisis, finding ‘insufficient evidence’

The EPA investigation did not find enough evidence to prove MDEQ violated Title VI and EPA's nondiscrimination regulations.
The EPA found deficiencies in implementing non-binding procedural safeguards, but MDEQ officials disputed this, calling the assertions misleading.

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The Hill

EPA closes discrimination probes into Jackson water crisis, finding ‘insufficient evidence’

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed its civil rights probes into the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., saying there was “insufficient evidence” to say that the state discriminated against residents on the basis of race. This week, the agency said in letters to state departments that received federal drinking water funding that it found “insufficient…

11 days ago·Washington, United States

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WJTV

EPA clears MDEQ of racial discrimination

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found no wrongdoing on the part of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), which was accused of racial discrimination in its funding of wastewater infrastructure and treatment programs and activities. In May 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Treasury on the behalf of Jackson residents against MDEQ an…

12 days ago·Jackson, United States

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eenews.net

EPA: ‘Insufficient evidence’ of discrimination in Miss. water crisis

The agency, however, stressed that the conclusion does not exonerate the state or anyone else for its handling of the public health disaster.

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EPA Clears MDEQ in Jackson Environmental Racism Complaint

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality issued the following statement.

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Mississippi Today

EPA absolves MDEQ, Health Department of discrimination in funding Jackson water

About a year and half ago, on the heels of Jackson’s infamous water system failure, advocates and politicians from Mississippi began publicly questioning the funding mechanisms that are supposed to support such systems. In October 2022, U.S. Reps. Bennie Thompson and Carolyn Maloney wrote Gov. Tate Reeves, grilling him over an apparent disparity in how federal infrastructure funds were allocated to Jackson versus other parts of the state. Then …

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