But what do civil rights have to do with transportation projects? When combined with environmentalism, they can stop almost anything. -Washington Times

 

by Katherine Timpf at Washington Times

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.. a nearly unknown executive order could have a greater impact on the future of America than all of those things combined, potentially giving the federal government power to control every project in the country.

 

Environmental justice has already stopped transportation projects in their tracks by using Title VI, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial “discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

 

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one of the dangers of environmental justice is that it gives the federal government power to make decisions that should be made by the people affected by them.

 

“There’s a huge element within the environmental community, … within the various government agencies and so forth, of desire to control what people can or can’t do,” …

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