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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Perkins

Trump administration kills landmark pollution settlement in majority-Black county

a Black man looks at a PVC pipe on the ground in a back yard
Aaron Thigpen, 29, observes a site where raw sewage is dumped through a PVC pipe only a few yards away from a home in Lowndes county, Alabama, on 10 July 2017. Photograph: Bob Miller for The Guardian

The Trump administration has killed a landmark civil rights settlement requiring Alabama to address raw sewage pollution in majority-Black, residential areas south-west of Montgomery, dismissing it as an “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agreement.

The decision could condemn low-income people in Lowndes county, about 40 miles south-west of Montgomery, to indefinitely continue living with no or failing sanitation infrastructure.

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