Plastics factories are being lured to Black communities by local governments offering tax breaks, resulting in toxic air pollution and carbon emissions, and often violating their pollution permits.
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Infrastructure Bill Funds Pollution Bomb for Black NeighborhoodsÂ
By Willy Blackmore Originally appeared in Word in Black In 2021, President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law made a whopping $1.2 trillion in federal funds available to states to upgrade everything […]