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Can Infrastructure Law Solve Highway Design & Environmental Injustices
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10:25Now PlayingTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg touted the Biden administration’s trillion-dollar infrastructure package.
The “Reconnecting Communities” program the secretary mentioned is part of the package that’s supposed to specifically address racial inequities in the nation’s highway designs.
The Justice Department has opened an environmental justice investigation into whether Alabama’s wastewater management program has been discriminating against a majority Black county, by not carrying out their responsibilities to reduce raw sewage conditions.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, associate professor at Ohio State University, joins Charles Blow on “Prime” to discuss how the infrastructure bill will deal with these issues.
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