National Urban League Demands EPA Civil Rights Probe of Wallace Grain Terminal Project

By, Mark Schleifstein, Nola.com

The National Urban League and its president and chief executive, former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, have upped their opposition to the proposed $400 million Greenfield Louisiana grain elevator terminal in Wallace by asking the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a civil rights investigation into the terminal’s backers.

“We believe that an investigation is consistent with your recent announcements of a new Office of Civil Rights at the Environmental Protection Agency which has jurisdiction with respect to this,” Morial wrote in an Oct. 19 letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

"EPA is in receipt of the correspondence and is in the process of reviewing it," said Taylor Gillespie, an EPA spokeswoman. 

 

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