An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death - Inside Climate News
Durham officials and EPA respond to decades of chemical pollution impacting a predominantly Black neighborhood, with contaminants detected at levels hundreds of times above safety standards.
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An Environmental Justice Test Case for Trump’s EPA: A Creek That Smells Like Death - Inside Climate News
EPA expressed alarm at contamination in a creek near a predominantly Black neighborhood. Then the agency eliminated its civil-rights office and has taken no further action.By Lisa SorgDURHAM, N.C.—On a summer afternoon in Burton Park, hip-hop throbs from a car stereo over the backbeat of a basketball slapping on concrete. The sun bakes a grid of identical brick buildings, whose wheezing window air conditioners can barely keep pace with the 96-de…
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