EPA complaint says cap-and-trade racially biased: Civil rights groups say California’s climate law ‘discriminates against people of color’
A coalition of environmental justice & civil rights activists has filed a complaint alleging cap-and-trade provisions in California's pioneering program to reduce ghgs discriminate against people of color...accused Calif Air Resources Board of violating Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it agreed to allow polluters in low-income areas to use carbon offsets to buy their way out of pollution reduction under the state's global warming reduction plan'
