Trump Judge Allows Polluters to Get Away With Poisoning Black Louisianans
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Federal judge permanently blocks EPA ‘disparate impact’ civil rights enforcement in Louisiana
by Zack Budryk - 08/23/24 1:13 PM ETA federal judge on Thursday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering disparate environmental harms in Louisiana in its enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, making permanent a temporary hold he issued in January.
In the ruling, Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana, a former President Trump appointee, sided with the state of Louisiana in prohibiting the EPA’s Office of External Civil Rights Compliance and the Justice Department from enforcing the provision “against any entity in the State of Louisiana, or requiring compliance with those requirements as a condition of past, existing, or future awards of financial assistance to any entity in the State of Louisiana.”
Cain ruled in January that the Civil Rights Act only authorizes enforcement in cases of intentional discrimination.
The ruling came shortly after the EPA announced it was ending an investigation into “Cancer Alley,” a predominantly Black and low-income section of Louisiana that is a hub of petrochemical production and has disproportionately high cancer rates relative to the country at large.
Cain declined a request from the federal government to dismiss Louisiana’s case after the end of the investigation, ruling that the state still had a right to “unambiguous clarity concerning Defendants’ power to regulate beyond the plain text of Title VI.”
Environmental advocacy group Earthjustice blasted the ruling in a statement Friday.
“Louisiana has given industrial polluters open license to poison Black and brown communities for generations, only to now have one court give it a permanent free pass to abandon its responsibilities,” Earthjustice Vice President for Healthy Communities Patrice Simms said in a statement. “Louisiana’s residents, its environmental justice communities, deserve the same Title VI protections as the rest of the nation.”
The Thursday ruling comes after the Supreme Court ruled this summer against the so-called Chevron deference, under which federal agencies were given broader latitude to interpret federal law.
move to the south they say. 
folks better smarten up cause they are killing you slowly only for you to later have conspiracy theories about the medical treatments you're gonna need for all the ailments brought about by disastrous environmental policies.
folks better smarten up cause they are killing you slowly only for you to later have conspiracy theories about the medical treatments you're gonna need for all the ailments brought about by disastrous environmental policies.
I always said if I hit the lottery I’m spending big money placing landfills, factories that pollute the water, etc in poor white areas that heavily vote GOP. I truly think a lot of cacs hate us because they know they deserve punishment for what they did to us, because they would do the same but we have too many c00ns that prevent us from dishing it out. The thing is some of us do feel this way and can’t wait to inflict the punishment on them they deserve 
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And people were wondering why this was a big deal...
Black Trump supporters and bothsiders looking more and more sillier by the day
A lot of these people need a collective leopards ate my face moment.
A lot of these people need a collective leopards ate my face moment.
Elim Garak
Veteran
You're allowed to poison Black folk if you say it was an "accident".
Kyle C. Barker
Migos VERZUZ Mahalia Jackson
Honestly, imo I think the Chevron Doctrine ruling was more detrimental than the affirmative action ruling. We now have to rely on the looniest repubs in the house to set environmental policy instead of the EPA, CDC, OSHA, etc... (or any government administration that is built around the life sciences for that matter).
Richard Glidewell
Superstar
They have precedent now to spread their bullshyt and fukk up other places....... hold on for the future