Today, King Trump's EPA Director announced that the Division of Environmental Justice and its many grants will be cancelled. Established during the Clinton Administration, in the 1990s, this Division worked to ensure that low income communities are not exposed to toxic pollution from nearby industrial plants.
Explaining their decision to eliminate the Division, the Director offered more than the standard cost reduction argument. He also suggested that the Division has engaged in reverse discrimination, funneling protection to lower income citizens (i.e. persons of color) at the expense of others (white folk). Once again, the King's agenda is driven by racism and wealth accumulation.
One suspects this is just one of many steps that Trump and his Court will take to dismantle the EPA. After all, they can't abide tree-hugging liberals, wringing our hands about pollution, habitat loss and climate change.
