Advocates and community organizers celebrated robust new pollution protections for diverse and low-income neighborhoods included in the Minnesota Legislature’s sweeping climate and environment bill. 

Minnesota’s Frontline Community Protection Act creates stronger permitting requirements for facilities seeking to emit pollutants in environmental justice areas, and requires the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to evaluate existing pollution in an area when issuing a new permit. 

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