Lowndes County to Cease Discriminatory Activity Targeting Black Residents and Assess Septic System Needs

Despite two federal civil rights investigations and a lawsuit, Michigan allowed operations to start

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.

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

The first transatlantic voyages were only the beginning.

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

U.S. Housing and Urban Development Title VI Discrimination Complaint Against Corpus Christi, Texas, Accepted

Desalination plant would disproportionately harm a historically Black neighborhood

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.

Texas has refused to fix problems in its air permitting program that affect environmental justice and public participation

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.

A community movement in Denver puts longtime polluters on notice and wins new protections for residents.

Florida Rising Civil Rights Complaint Against FL DEP

Action filed under 1964 Civil Rights Act and Other Laws