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Environmental complaint leads to federal discrimination probe


Environmental complaint leads to federal discrimination probe
 
Updated 2/5/2021 4:19 PM
SPRINGFIELD The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation into the Illinois EPA over whether the planned relocation of an industrial scrap shredder on Chicago s Southeast Side discriminates against communities of color.
A complaint filed in December by a pair of local community advocacy groups accused the Illinois EPA of unfairly discriminating against majority Latino and Black communities in the area by allowing a construction permit to be issued to General III LLC for a scrap metal recycling facility.
 
The complaint, filed by attorneys for the Chicago Southeast Side Coalition to Ban Petcoke and the Southeast Environmental Task Force, spurred the EPA s External Civil Rights Compliance Office to open an investigation on Jan. 25. ....

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