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For One Environmentalist, Warning Black Women About Dangerous Beauty Products Allows Them to Own Their Health
The effort by Heather McTeer Toney, a former EPA official, is a part of a larger effort to educate communities of color about personal and communal environmental harms.
By Victoria St. Martin
Dereliction of Beauty: Third in a series on how lax regulation of beauty care products victimizes women of color.
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More than 30 years after the last major update of the Clean Air Act, the U.S. Supreme Court has upended the ability of Congress to give the Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies broad scope to combat air pollution, including the emission of greenhouse gases. Meanwhile, further Biden administration efforts to limit emissions face opposition in the courts.