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        <title><![CDATA[Andre Perry - Senior Fellow:Brookings Metro]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Andre Perry is a senior fellow at Brookings Metro. He is the author of “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities.”
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            <title><![CDATA[US Civil Rights Tools Are Failing the Most Polluted Black Communities]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An abandoned EPA probe in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” shows why the US needs human rights principles to combat gaping pollution disparities.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-15/why-can-t-the-epa-protect-cancer-alley</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:18:02 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Denka, formerly DuPont, factory in Reserve, Louisiana, on August 12, 2021. - Silos, smokestacks and brown pools of water line the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, where scores of refineries and petrochemical plants have metastasized over a few decades. Welcome to &quot;Cancer Alley.&quot; Industrial pollution on this ribbon of land between New Orleans and Baton Rouge puts the mostly African-American residents at nearly 50 times the risk of developing cancer than the national average, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (Photo by Emily Kask / AFP) (Photo by EMILY KASK/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Cities Should Compensate Residents for Toxic Exposure]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Houston is taking the first step toward reparations by relocating residents exposed to contamination. It should do more.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-08/houston-should-do-more-than-relocate-residents-exposed-to-toxic-pollution</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:30:04 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>HOUSTON, TEXAS - AUGUST 28: In an aerial view, the Houston skyline is seen from the Valero Houston refinery on August 28, 2023 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ford Needs to Take a Stand in Tennessee]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The company’s Blue Oval City investment could transform a struggling, Black-majority rural town — if state officials don’t get in the way.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-21/ford-motor-co-needs-to-take-a-stand-at-tennessee-blue-oval-city</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 10:30:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Make America proud.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop Saying Student Debt Relief Is for the Rich]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Canceling the debt would actually do a lot of good for the asset-poor, the disadvantaged and the broader economy.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-18/stop-saying-student-debt-relief-is-for-the-rich</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Romer]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:30:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Not just for the rich.</media:description>
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