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Feds force Alabama to treat sewage in Black Belt: 7 takeaways
Jun 12, 2023
https://www.al.com/news/2023/06/feds-force-alabama-to-treat-sewage-in-black-belt-what-it-means-7-takeaways.html
The federal government last month agreed to call a halt to a civil rights investigation on the condition that Alabama finally do something about wastewater pooling in yards in rural Lowndes County.
The investigation targeted the Alabama Department of Public Health. And it marked the first-ever civil rights settlement between the feds and a state over environmental justice, and probably the first time a state health department has ever been forced to provide sewer access for people who can’t afford it on their own.