Mr. President: Do Your Job

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p9DTn5GYl2M

 

In feud with Wes Moore, Trump slings feces - POLITICO

Now as Trump feuds with Moore, the nation's only Black governor, less than two weeks after excluding him from a White House dinner for the National Governor's Association, the image of millions of gallons of raw sewage flowing into the nation's capital offered another level of political punch altogether. The situation comes as Moore is pushing to redraw Maryland's congressional lines to counter Trump's red-state redistricting...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/trump-fixates-on-sewage-a-favored-talking-point-in-fight-with-wes-moore-00786490

There was a deal to fix this community’s raw sewage crisis. Trump tore it up over DEI

'Raw sewage on the ground is not DEI'…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/alabama-raw-sewage-crisis-trump-dei

 

Justice Department scraps deal over Alabama county’s sewage woes - The Washington Post

Friday's decision comes nearly two years after the Biden administration finalized an agreement with local health officials and the Alabama Department of Public Health, based on findings that residents in rural Lowndes County had long suffered inadequate access to sanitation systems, faced burdensome fines and liens, and had serious health risks plaguing their community ignored...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/11/environmental-justice-lowndes-county-alabama-sewage/

 

California Democrats invite EPA head to witness cross-border sewage crisis firsthand

"As you know, decades of underinvestment in cross-border wastewater infrastructure have led to the flow of untreated sewage into San Diego," the letter stated. "EPA served as an important advocate for this issue in the last Trump Administration and we hope the agency will continue to do so once again."…

https://thehill.com/homenews/5205415-california-dems-urge-epa/

 

Rising waters plague septic tanks, threatening pollution and health risks - Washington Post

"A large percentage of the developed land is actually comprised of septic drain fields," one filing argues, saying that such a situation risks "significant, irreparable harms" to public health and that of nearby marshes, beaches and fisheries. That includes the possibility of diseases such as hepatitis A and salmonellosis, which can be transmitted through fecal matter, and degradation of water quality, the filing said… 

"Sea level rise is happening. It will keep happening," said Leslie Lenhardt, a senior managing attorney for the South Carolina Environmental Law Project, which is working on the case. "It's steady, and it's coming for these developments."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/septic-tanks-rising-waters-environment-health/

EPA Opens Civil Rights Probe of Alabama’s Sewage Failures – Mother Jones

The decision comes after advocates filed a complaint in March alleging that, for years, the state has hindered Black residents in rural areas from obtaining federal funds to update their wastewater systems. 

It's a region where children play on sewage-laden soil and an overwhelming stench envelops some neighborhoods for weeks on end. "It's really disgraceful and painful that people endure this, especially when we have the opportunity to fix it," said Aaron Colangelo, an attorney at the Natural Resources Defence Council who has been working on the issue...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/epa-civil-rights-investigation-alabama-sewage-black-belt/

'If white people were still here, this wouldn’t happen': the majority-Black town flooded with sewage

In Centreville, she noted, the "sewage is in plain sight".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/11/centreville-illinois-flooding-sewage-overflow

This Black Community Has Filed a Civil Rights Complaint Over Unsanitary Sewage Conditions - Mother Jones

The state of Alabama and one of its counties are facing a federal civil rights complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services over unsanitary sewage conditions that have been plaguing a historically black county for decades. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/10/this-black-community-has-filed-a-civil-rights-complaint-over-unsanitary-sewage-conditions/