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After Trump Administration Closes DOJ’s Office of Environmental Justice, Advocates Worry About Future Enforcement

Set up in 2022, the office teamed up with federal prosecutors to coordinate work in vulnerable communities. The Trump administration shut the office and placed its staff on leave earlier this month.

By Kristoffer Tigue

 Volunteers hand out bottled water on Aug. 31, 2022, as Jackson, Miss. residents are left without safe drinking water after a treatment plant failed. Credit: Brad Vest/Getty Images
Sections of steel pipe of the Mountain Valley Pipeline sit on wooden blocks in August 2022 near wetland areas in Callaway, Virginia. The state's General Assembly has diminished the power of residents to engage in the decision-making process for permitting and siting such projects as the Mountain Valley Pipeline under the state Department of Environmental Quality, a key environmental justice provision under Virginia law. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Environmental Justice Advocates in Virginia Fear Recent Legal Gains Could Be Thwarted by Politics in Richmond

By Hannah Chanatry

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