"EPA Takes Environmental Justice Push To Coal Country"

"EPA Administrator Michael Regan on Tuesday expanded his environmental justice push to coal country with a trip to a rural, Trump-loving town in West Virginia long plagued by serious water problems.

Regan is in McDowell County — population 20,000 — to highlight defective sewer systems and dilapidated plumbing in Appalachia. The region of the country that “once powered our nation and helped cement America’s competitiveness,” he said, now is “not in such great shape.”

“We owe it to communities like that to demonstrate our support,” he said in an interview with E&E News, “by also visiting and listening to people on the ground the same way that we’re doing with some of our other environmental justice communities.”"

Kelsey Brugger reports for E&E News December 6, 2022.