Black and Latino communities hit harder by pollution vs Trump

    “We've had this discussion at the Supreme Court and otherwise for many years, past discrimination is not an excuse for future discrimination," he said, adding that Trump's executive orders allow the law to be enforced “without a specific racial tinge to it."

                                                                                                            -Joe Luppino-Esposito

   As soon as Trump stepped into office was similar to when he won the election, the room, hell even the world kind of froze. With no hesitation he sounded off on how he was going to change this as well as that. One such issue is the "Justice40" Inititive Biden put in place as well as firing a team of white house advisers of which of those were to check and advise of such issues of pollution and enviromental adnormalities. With Such reversals taking place within a short amont of time it seems to start the begining of a slue of problems that will take place, and the starting point of those problems might start a lower income communities were Black and brown people live and work.

    Its no secret that Black and brown communities have historicly been hit much worse by pollution harder than other communities. Industral and commercial pollution are just 2 examples of pollution that hit these communities and here is how. 

    Industrial: Industrial pollution disproportionately affects Black communities, leading to unfair burdens on public health and quality of life. Black Americans in 19 states are 79 percent more likely to live with industrial pollution than white people. Residents of fence-line communities, which border industrial plants, breathe dirtier air than people in more affluent communities. These disparities have adverse health effects. (This also the same for brown/hispanic communites) 

    Commercial:Commercial pollution has significant effects on Black communities. President Trump has reversed efforts to clean up areas hardest hit by pollution from heavy industry, ports, and roadways. Not just pollution but harzards as well.

     Yet the policies that are being reversed seemed to a good effect trying to right such a bing wrong

    EPA studies: From the fines that had to be paid (1.7 BILLION) in 2024, 1850 civil cases filed, and charged 121 criminal defendants, a 17.6% increase over the previous year. The “revitalized enforcement and compliance efforts” resulted in the reduction or elimination of more than 225 million pounds of pollution in overburdened communities, the agency said in its final report on Biden-era enforcement. what else what quoted was eye opening......

    “What I’m grappling right now with is both the grief of these losses, and the fact that we were on an upward swing, if you will, just weeks ago,” 

                                                                                                           Jade Begay an Indigenous rights and climate organizer in New Mexico. 

    Meaning that Biden was actually putting forth efforts for eviromental enforcement as well as reversing some of the pollution problem lower/low income communites have dealt with for decades at this point. Biden's term has come to an end and now "Big Bad Trump" is now he is purposely, out of spite going to reverse a policy that was actually working over the past 4 years and not at least adapting to the policy that seems to have a purpose. Policy reversals like this seems to happen every 4-8 years within the system that we have in this country (the bad and the good policies), this one is CLEARLY an issue that seems to target low income polulations with this new move. 

Sources:https://apnews.com/article/epa-enforcement-inspections-environmental-justice-75c7997b101632d4666d879772261fd8

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-black-communities-become-sacrifice-zones-for-industrial-air-pollution

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/in-policy-reversal-trump-eliminates-help-for-black-and-latino-communities-hit-harder-by-pollution/ar-AA1xTkyo?ocid=BingNewsSerp