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Protesters & mayor spotlight environment at Fort Worth s 2023 State of the City

Mayor Mattie Parker announced a new green initiative, but a group of protesters say they’re still waiting for her to respond to their environmental.

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Fort Worth residents protest industrial development near their neighborhoods

More than a dozen people gathered outside mayor’s State of the City address to protest “environmental racism.”

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Is there environmental racism in Fort Worth? This group says, yes, and is fighting back

Some say Fort Worth’s Black and Hispanic neighborhoods bear the brunt of pollution as the city grows.

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Does Fort Worth Have an Environmental Racism Problem?

Echo Heights, one of the city’s predominantly Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, is worse than 91 percent of the country for proximity to hazardous waste. The ZIP code’s average life expectancy in 2019 was just 73.4 years, well below the average for the county.

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