Louisiana Urges Judge to Throw Down EPA Civil Rights Regulation

According to the State of Louisiana, completely abandoning the “disparate effects” phrase in environmental civil rights cases is the only appropriate remedy in a legal challenge to EPA’s enforcement strategy.

The state attorney general’s office filed a brief Tuesday responding to the Environmental Protection Agency’s request to deny its request to continue cracking down on environmental justice enforcement tactics.

Judge James D. Cain Jr. of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction in the case earlier this year Louisiana v. EPAquestioning the agency’s use of disparate impact as an evaluation metric in Title VI…