The EPA will investigate whether Alabama discriminated against Black communities when distributing federal infrastructure funds.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has opened an investigation into whether Alabama discriminated against Black residents when handing out billions of dollars in federal infrastructure funding.The complaint says the state awards grants in a way that makes it more difficult for Black communities to receive funding.
The agency said it will specifically investigate whether ADEM’s implementation of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program excludes or discriminates against Black Belt residents and whether ADEM has grievance procedures in place to resolve complaints that allege discrimination. Flowers is the founder of The Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice and author of the book “Waste: ...” detailing how rural communities across the nation struggle with basic sanitation issues. Earlier this year, she was named among
The NRDC, in a news release, argued that ADEM discriminates against Black communities in the following ways:
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