PBS News Hour spoke to Beverly Wright, founder of Region 4 & 6 TCTAC Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, about an August ruling where a federal judge barred the EPA and DOJ from using part of the Civil Rights Act to investigate how Louisiana regulates industrial plants. "Everything shows that pollution does discriminate. We can determine almost how long you're going to live by your address, and the addresses of poor people and people of color are such that we live near the most dangerous polluting facilities. Our air is worse, and that's why I felt that we should have taken this further," Wright said.
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