The income neighborhood in Minneapolis, where the neighborhood continues to experience the cumulative majority of residents are Indigenous and people of effects of decades of pollution, due to the siting of color and which was declared a federal “residential numerous polluting industrial facilities directly arsenic Superfund site” in 2000. [...] so far as to prohibit new MPCA permits “without analyzing and considering the cumulative levels and Most recently, the City and EPNI have begun the effects of past and current environmental pollution process of negotiating a settlement agreement, from all sources on the after the community environment.” sued the City over the environmental racism of Despite East Phillips this project. [...] EPNI and being designated as an allies are still working to environmental justice pressure the City to relent, community, the City is but the City is planning currently planning to site to move forward with a a major new municipal vote to begin demolition of project in the heart of the Roof Depot building, their neighborhood. [...] The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute Clean Water Action ▲ For years, the residents of the East Phillips (EPNI) has been leading Minnesota will continue neighborhood in Minneapolis have fought against city the charge to negotiate to stand with the East plans to add more pollution to their already overburdened with the City and prevent community, taking a stand for environmental justice. [...] The IRA The time is now to systematically increase climate- changes the definition of “socially disadvantaged friendly agriculture and food production while farmers,” defined in the act as farmers who have ensuring equitable land access and economic power been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice, to for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
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