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Meet Karen Clark, Minnesota's Trailblazing Pollution Legislator


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An environmental justice conflict is unfolding in Minneapolis’s East Phillips neighborhood, just north of the Midtown Greenway. A local group, the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI), is determined to transform the former Roof Depot warehouse near Hiawatha Avenue into an urban farm and community development. The City of Minneapolis plans to relocate a deteriorating water maintenance facility to the same spot. 
The facility will serve as a central hub for public works operations, and EPNI says that the city’s fleet of work trucks—some diesel—will add to the neighborhood’s already dangerous levels of air pollution. East Phillips has heavy traffic on its bordering highways and interior streets, and tw ....

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