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      Baltimore Blocks EPA Plan to Dump Toxic Wastewater From East Palestine

      "Too often cities with high rates of concentrated poverty and environmental degradation are asked to shoulder the burden for corporate malfeasance," said a Democratic City Council member. "East Palestine and Baltimore deserve better."

      Julia Conley
      Mar 28, 2023

      A local Democratic lawmaker in Baltimore on Tuesday credited community members and clean water advocates for helping to secure an environmental victory, as the City Council unanimously approved a resolution to block shipments of contaminated wastewater from East Palestine, Ohio.

      Days after water treatment company Clean Harbors informed Baltimore and Maryland officials that it intended to receive 675,000 gallons of contaminated wastewater containing vinyl chloride and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from the site of a toxic train derailment in February, Councilmember Zeke Cohen introduced a resolution on Monday to stop the shipment.

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      Balimore's Mondawmin Mall Target Closes

      Target's Bullseye on Black Youth

      Target’s pledge to invest in the Black community rings hollow

      Marjaan Sirdar
      Jul 11, 2021

      On June 30, the New York Times published an article, Target Store Closings Show Limits of Pledge to Black Communities, about Target closing 13 stores and divesting in some Black communities. This is after the nation's #2 discount retailer publicly committed to investing $2 billion in Black communities following Target's "woke" moment in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the looting of its South Minneapolis store, which is across the street from where the third precinct police station burned.

      The story quoted Sadiq Ali, former manager of the Mondawmin store in West Baltimore's historic Black community that closed in 2018: "When white folks started shopping in the store, it meant they felt safe enough to cross the tracks."

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      Supreme Court Sends Baltimore Climate Damages Case Back to Appeals Court

      Narrow procedural ruling does not address merits of Baltimore’s effort to hold big oil accountable for causing and lying about climate change.

      Newswire Editor
      May 17, 2021

      The U.S. Supreme Court today ordered a federal appeals court to review additional arguments to determine whether the City of Baltimore's lawsuit seeking to hold major oil and gas companies accountable for climate damages they knowingly caused should be heard in state or federal court.

      In BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with a lower court that Baltimore's lawsuit should proceed in state court, where it was filed, because the appeals court found that its scope of review on the question of jurisdiction was limited only to whether or not the oil defendants acted with or on behalf of the federal government. Three other federal appeals courts -- the First, Ninth, and Tenth -- reached the same conclusion in similar climate liability lawsuits.

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