Raw sewage polluted this Black community. Now residents are fighting back. – NBC News

The environmental challenges have spiraled into what the group Centreville Citizens for Change says is a crisis, prompting the federal government to step in twice this month and more than two dozen residents of Cahokia Heights to file a federal lawsuit alleging that "decades of government failure to ensure basic sewage and stormwater services ... have created an environmental injustice for this Black community."

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