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Coalition presses EPA to stand firm on civil rights protections amid new legal challenges

Earthjustice welcomes EPA’s new Title VI guidance

Ruling blocks federal safeguards against environmental injustice in Louisiana

A coalition of over 45 groups, including environmental justice and civil rights organizations, along with community-based and grassroots groups, submit a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, calling on the agency to reject a petition filed by Republican attorneys general seeking to rescind critical Title VI protections.

A coalition of over 45 groups, including environmental justice and civil rights organizations, along with community-based and grassroots groups, submit a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, calling on the agency to reject a petition filed by Republican attorneys general seeking to rescind critical Title VI protections.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana permanently blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice from enforcing disparate impact regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in Louisiana.

Desalination plant would disproportionately harm a historically Black neighborhood

Communities of color in California’s South Coast Air Basin are tired of holding their breath.

Groups say desalination plant would disproportionately harm the historically Black Hillcrest neighborhood that has faced increased industrialization by the City

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination on the basis of color, religion, national origin and gender. The text of the law is thematically organized into eleven sections, Title I to Title XI. Title VI is of particular significance. Find out why.

Earthjustice, along with a diverse coalition of community and advocacy groups, write to express deep dismay over the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) abrupt termination of three complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) by Louisiana residents, as well as EPA’s subsequent wholly inadequate settlement of a Title VI complaint filed by residents of Flint, Michigan.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ruling restricts EPA and DOJ from protecting Louisiana communities from disparate environmental impacts

Republican attorneys general from 23 states petitioned the agency to weaken Title VI

State of Louisiana v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et. al.

State of Louisiana v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et. al.

State of Louisiana v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et. al.

Official transcript of motion hearing before the Honorable James D. Cain, Jr., United States District Judge. State of Louisiana v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, et. al.

The Environmental Protection Agency declines to investigate civil rights environmental discrimination claims involving the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the use of Signification Impact Levels (SILs) as exemplified in LDEQ’s extension of Formosa Plastic’s major source air permits’ deadlines to commence construction and the granting of the Commonwealth LNG major source air permits.