This week the nonprofit law firm Earthjustice filed suit over government violations of civil rights laws in communities including Tallassee, Alabama and Beaumont, Texas.
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The expansion of ExxonMobil's Beaumont Refinery in Texas is one of the cases where the EPA failed to investigate civil rights complaints filed more than a decade ago. (Photo by Randy Edwards via Earthjustice.)
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<p>The expansion of ExxonMobil's Beaumont Refinery in Texas is one of the cases where the EPA failed to investigate civil rights complaints filed more than a decade ago. (Photo by Randy Edwards <a href="http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2015/epa-must-end-discrimination-stop-states-from-permitting-polluters-in-overburdened-communities-of-color-0">via Earthjustice</a>.)</p>