EPA left West Dallas neighbors in the dark about a promised environmental justice study

By: Amal Ahmed

Outlets: Dallas Free Press

Published: March 28, 2025

Words: 1,469

Last Updated: 1 year, 3 months ago


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In November 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency packed a room at the West Dallas Multipurpose Center with neighbors and members of the press to announce a major project in West Dallas:For the first time, the EPA would conduct a “cumulative impact study” in the region, sampling air, water and soil pollution in neighborhoods that have long said they suffer decades of compounding environmental injustices.

But almost a year and a half …

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