EPA Investigates Itself For Racial Discrimination Over Jeep Plant Permit

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will investigate the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy to determine if it racially discriminated against a lower-income, majority-Black neighborhood in approving an emissions permit for a new Jeep plant in Detroit.

The EPA is acting after five residents whose properties now back up to the Mack Assembly Plant on the city's east side filed a civil rights complaint in November against EGLE.