Environmental Justice for Residents in Michigan, New Mexico and North Carolina
The EPA Civil Rights Office takes steps to enforce civil rights laws protecting vulnerable members of communities from environmental racism.
In decisions that indicate the fox is guarding the hen house in some cases, EPA’s External Civil Rights Compliance Office has determined that state environmental agencies in Michigan, New Mexico and North Carolina failed to adequately protect the civil rights of residents by taking or allowing actions that had a disparate impact on the basis of race, color or national origin.
