Florida Rising respectfully submits this supplement to its civil rights complaint to provide additional relevant factual and legal background, clarify the scope of the complaint, and update
ECRCO on relevant developments since the filing of the complaint.
For over a decade, the South Coast Air Quality Management District has enabled the oil industry to pollute communities of color by giving major stationary sources a free pass on compliance with section 185 of the Clean Air Act.
In the fall of 2021, Michigan’s environmental agency (EGLE) authorized the Ajax corporation to build a toxic hot-mix asphalt plant near Flint. Close to 3,000 people live within a one-mile radius of the plant site, in a low-income area already overburdened with industrial polluters. The asphalt plant will release harmful chemicals like sulfur dioxide and…
Groups say desalination plant would disproportionately harm the historically Black Hillcrest neighborhood that has faced increased industrialization by the City
Civil rights complaint to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development against the City of Corpus Christi for violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue a Title VI compliance review and a SIP (State Implementation Plan) Call to address the lack of environmental justice review and unlawful barriers to public participation in the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) air permitting program.
Comments submitted on behalf of Florida Rising on draft air construction permit no. 0250348-014-AC, regarding authorization of non-emergency diesel engines for the Miami-Dade County Resources Recovery Facility.
Addendum re: comments submitted on behalf of Florida Rising on draft air construction permit no. 0250348-014-AC, regarding authorization of non-emergency diesel engines for the Miami-Dade County Resources Recovery Facility.