EPA head tours embattled communities, says help on the way
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EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near the Marathon Petroleum Refinery as he conducts a television interview, while touring neighborhoods that abut the refinery, in Reserve, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)EPA Administrator Michael Regan listens as resident Shannon Rainey speaks during tour of Gordon Plaza neighborhood in New Orleans, on Wednesday Nov. 17. Regan says a recently completed Journey to Justice tour from Mississippi to Texas enabled him to put "faces and names with this term that we call environmental justice. The five-day tour in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)EPA staff members, walk past a closed drinking water fountain at Wilkins Elementary School in Jackson, Miss., Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. EPA administrator Michael Regan and others toured the school, as part of the agency's "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, several Jackson schools resorted to virtual learning as the city reported low or no water pressure throughout the city and affected schools were closed for the day. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)The Marathon Petroleum Refinery is seen in Reserve, La., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. EPA Administrator Michael Regan recently visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near a cemetery in a neighborhood next to the Nu Star Energy oil storage tanks, as he conducts a television interview, in St. James Parish, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Doris Devine, Queens-Magnolia Terrace Subdivision President, addresses EPA Administrator Michael Regan, about how the city's water problems affects many neighborhoods, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Regan and others toured the school, as part of the agency's "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)EPA Administrator Michael Regan poses for a photo for his EPA photographer near a cemetery in a neighborhood next to the Nu Star Energy oil storage tanks, after conducting a television interview, in St. James Parish, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Errick L. Greene, superintendent of the Jackson, Miss., Public Schools, left, tells both EPA Administrator Michael Regan, center, and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, right, how the city's water problems affects many of the city's schools, including Wilkins Elementary School, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. Regan and others toured the school, as part of the agency's "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)EPA Administrator Michael Regan addresses community leaders at a roundtable discussion with community leaders over environmental justice concerns in impacted communities Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. The discussion was the first event in a week-long "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near the Marathon Petroleum Refinery as he conducts a television interview, while touring neighborhoods that abut the refinery, in Reserve, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)A roadway in a neighborhood leads to a locked fence that blocks the roadway, which residents say cuts off their evacuation route, as EPA Administrator Michael Regan tours a neighborhood next to the Nu Star Energy oil storage tanks, in St. James Parish, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)EPA Administrator Michael Regan, second right, talks with Michael Coleman, second left, in front of his house, which abuts the Marathon Petroleum Refinery and a Cargill grain depot, as he tours Reserve, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Coleman's house is the last one standing on his tiny street, squeezed between a sprawling oil refinery whose sounds and smells keep him up at night and a massive grain elevator that spews dust that covers his pickup and, he says, exacerbates his breathing problems. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)EPA Administrator Michael Regan, right, confers with city engineer Charles Williams at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, a Ridgeland based facility near Jackson, Miss., about longstanding water issues that have plagued the city, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. The visit was one of several stops in a week-long "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)EPA Administrator Michael Regan, right, speaks to reporters at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, a Ridgeland based facility near Jackson, Miss., about longstanding water issues that have plagued the city, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. The visit was one of several stops in a week-long "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)Resident Michael Coleman speaks to the media as EPA Administrator Michael Regan listens outside his home which abuts the Marathon Petroleum Refinery, as Regan tours Reserve, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)EPA Administrator Michael Regan, discuss with Wilkins Elementary School fourth grade students, Javaris Webster, left, and Brookelynn Knight, how the city's water problems affects many of the city's schools, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, several schools resorted to virtual learning as the city reported low or no water pressure throughout the city and schools affected were closed for the day. Regan and others toured the school, as part of the agency's "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)EPA Administrator Michael Regan, left center, and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antra Lumumba, right, listen as fourth grader Kingston Lewis talks about a lack of water at his school, Wilkins Elementary School, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. On Tuesday, Nov. 16, several schools resorted to virtual learning as the city reported low or no water pressure throughout the city and schools affected were closed for the day. Regan and others toured the school, as part of the agency's "Journey to Justice" tour through Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, spotlighting longstanding environmental concerns in historically marginalized communities. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)EPA Administrator Michael Regan talks with Brenda Bryant, left, and other members of the group Rise St. James, as he tours a neighborhood next to the Nu Star Energy oil storage tanks, in St. James Parish, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. "We are actually sandwiched in. And I'm the meat, Bryant told Regan, who assured her that she and others he met with "will have a seat at the table as officials develop solutions for long-ignored communities. Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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EPA Administrator Michael Regan stands near the Marathon Petroleum Refinery as he conducts a television interview, while touring neighborhoods that abut the refinery, in Reserve, La., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Regan visited St. John and St. James parishes on a tour he called "Journey to Justice." The five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas in mid-November highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by decades of industrial pollution. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)