Residents and lawyers representing Brooklyn community groups call for investigations into the Metropolitan Reliability Infrastructure project, a gas pipeline that’s snaking through Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Bushwick and East Williamsburg.
Residents and lawyers representing Brooklyn community groups call for investigations into National Grid’s fossil fuel projects. | Samantha Maldonado/THE CITY

Federal officials are launching a civil rights investigation into fossil fuel projects in Brooklyn, where construction of a natural gas pipeline has sparked accusations of environmental racism.

The Environmental Protection Agency will examine whether the state Department of Environmental Conservationviolated federal laws when it did not consider the impact of National Grid’s North Brooklyn Pipeline…

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