US Politics in Trump era
Publisher: The Guardian
Author: Oliver Milman
4 Mar 2017
‘Just racist’: EPA cuts will hit black and Hispanic communities the hardest
Planned cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency are set to fall heaviest upon communities of color across the US that already suffer disproportionately from toxic pollution, green groups have warned. Proposal would remove environmental justice office, tasked with bridging gap in pollution in black, Hispanic and low-income areas and wealthier white ones