“Poster Child” Community for Environmental Justice Enters New Chapter in Water Pollution Fight
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 6, 2022
NASHVILLE, TN – A decade-long court order to protect residents of Dickson, Tenn. from the toxin trichloroethylene (TCE) wound down last week. The court has ordered that remaining settlement money be used by the county for ongoing water monitoring and related purposes. The end of ten years of court-supervised remediation kicks off the next chapter in a case infamously known as the “poster child” for the environmental justice movement.
