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Jackson MS Organizations Petition EPA for Emergency Relief on Water System

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18 Aug 2023

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Brooke Floyd is co-director of the Jackson People’s Assembly at the People's Advocacy Institute. Along with the Poor Peoples Campaign, Center for Constitutional Rights, Forward Justice, the ACLU of Mississippi and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Peoples Advocacy Institute has filed an emergency petition with the EPA to provide immediate relief and transparency in resolving the decades old water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi.

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