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EPA cannot enforce tougher pollution rules in Louisiana's poor and minority communities, judge rules
The Environmental Protection Agency cannot force Louisiana industries to reduce toxic pollutants in minority and low-income areas to lower levels than in majority White areas to make up for past pollution, a federal judge in Lake Charles has ruled. The “ …