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Federal judge in Louisiana blocks EPA's disparate impact requirements

— The Environmental Protection Agency can't treat companies differently in Black communities than in white communities, a federal judge ruled this week.

U.S. District Court Judge James Cain on Tuesday granted the state's request for a preliminary injunction to block the EPA and Department of Justice from imposing what's known as disparate impact requirements under the Civil Rights Act.

The rules wou…

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