The EPA is vowing to take new steps to help communities disproportionately burdened by pollution.
The EPA is vowing to take new steps to help communities disproportionately burdened by pollution, after Administrator Michael Regan's tour of areas in Louisiana, Mississippi and elsewhere.The steps include expanding air monitoring and "aggressively" using unannounced inspections of polluting facilities suspected of noncompliance with standards, the EPA said.
The EPA will also install air pollution monitors in Louisiana, specifically between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, where cancer risks are higher than in the rest of the U.S., to detect emissions in real time,The agency also sent a letter to the city of Jackson, Mississippi, ordering city officials to "correct the significant deficiencies identified" in its drinking water system, AP notes.
Regan in November 2021 visited mainly lower-income communities in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas to witness environmental conditions in places affected by industrial pollution, according to AP. "In every community I visited during the 'Journey to Justice' tour, the message was clear: residents have suffered far too long and local, state and federal agencies have to do better," the EPA administration said, per AP.
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