Say Goodbye to 'Environmental Justice' Warriors and Other Radicals at the EPA
Rick Moran | 2:45 PM on February 07, 2025
The "environmental justice movement" is a new radical left idea that began at the beginning of the 21st century. It was based on the idea that low-income and minority communities were unfairly "targeted" by businesses that dumped their waste and polluted the ground.
There's evidence that, in some cases, irresponsible businesses and even more irresponsible governments dumped chemicals and other waste in minority communities. One example is the Flint Water Crisis, where a predominantly low-income community experienced lead contamination in their drinking water due to lax government enforcement.
“When the consequences of the environmental justice movement mean fewer high-paying jobs, then it’s not justice. That’s not justice for a low-income worker who needs to support her family," says the director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, Diana Furchtgott-Roth.
But "environmental justice" as a legal theory depends on the idea that minorities were exclusively targeted. That theory was challenged successfully by the state of Louisiana in a court case last year.
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