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Court permanently blocks environmental civil rights protections for Louisiana's Black communities • Louisiana Illuminator

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Judge James Cain ’s ruling solidifies his earlier decision in January , which blocked EPA from imposing or enforcing so-called disparate impact-based requirements in its permitting decisions.

In the earlier decision, Cain wrote that “pollution does not discriminate,” and that if a regulating authority had to consider race in its enforcement decision making, it will “participate in racism”.