EPA targets pollution in poor communities of Texas and others

  • January 27, 2022

FILE - EPA Administrator Michael Regan poses for a photo for his EPA photographer near a cemetery in a neighborhood next to the Nu Star Energy oil storage tanks, after conducting a television interview, in St. James Parish, La., Nov. 16, 2021. Regan visited low-income, mostly minority communities in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas as part of an effort to focus federal attention on communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

 

The EPA announced this week plans to address air pollution, unsafe drinking water and other problems involving minority communities in three Gulf Coast states—among them Texas.

The Associated Press reports the action came after a “Journey to Justice” tour by Administrator Michael Regan last fall.

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Jerry Bohnen