OKAY, BUT TRY TO GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT: Tammy Duckworth, Corey Booker and Tom Carper have formed a Senate Environmental Justice Caucus aimed at eliminating racism in environmental protection. That’s fine. But note that when the Commission on Civil Rights tried to prove that coal ash dumps were disproportionately being located near African-American neighborhoods it ended up finding the opposite: The dumps were disproportionately placed near white neighborhoods.
From Gail Herriot