June 6, 2024Complaint Urges Civil Rights Investigation of City of Albuquerque and Environmental Health Department for Failing to Protect Vulnerable Communities from Air Pollution

Los Jardines Institute and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) have filed a Title VI civil rights complaint urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require the City of Albuquerque and Albuquerque Environmental Health Department to start accounting for the cumulative impacts of pollution in lower-income communities of color in Bernalillo County when granting air pollution permits, and to reverse the long history of over-polluting those communities which has harmed the health of people living in them.