Adam Mahoney is the climate and environment reporter at Capital B.
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Rural America
An EPA Plan to Curb Pollution Could Dump More of It Into Black Neighborhoods
A Biden Administration rule could remove "forever chemicals" from our drinking water—by incinerating them in low-income sacrifice zones.
Adam Mahoney
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DispatchClimate
Pollution is Displacing Black Midwesterners. White Homeowners are Profiting.
Black people in the Midwest are 33% more likely to receive lung cancer diagnoses than those living in the country's 38 other states.
Adam Mahoney