OLD KING COAL
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 holds that a recipient of
federal funding, including the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, which receives
funding from the EPA, cannot
administer its programs in such a
way that subjects individuals to
discrimination based on race, color, sex or national origin.
Conceivably, if the EPA could not
broker a resolution between the
conflicting parties — its preferred
tack in such cases — it could cut off
funding for ADEM, and the agency’s own criteria for considering
such charges would seem to provide for the sort of relief that Bullard and others have learned is so
difficult to obtain from the courts.
“Frequently, discrimination
results from policies and practices
that are neutral on their face, but
have the effect of discriminating,” reads ѡ