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According to the article, Trey Glenn, the Director Alabama’s Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”), delivered a speech that angered some environmental justice advocates who believed that Mr. Glenn’s remarks represented a “really low blow” and lacked intellectual sophistication. Specifically, Mr. Glenn addressed a group of attorneys at an Alabama State Bar event and articulated that certain private environmental groups “‘seem to exist only to complain that ADEM doesn’t have an environmental justice unit.’” In addition, Mr. Glenn noted that “ADEM has been trying to form an environmental justice unit but has been able to get only a small amount of funding from [EPA] because the complainers have gotten the grants, instead.” In accusing some of the environmental groups of using information on minorities and pollution to manipulate the unsophisticated, Mr. Glenn asserted that ADEM’s goal was to “create a unit that can provide sound, unbiased, scientific information to those groups of people possibly lacking the intellectual sophistication to discern that information offered for baser, manipulative reasons.” Article taken from EJ in the News.
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