{"id":5530,"date":"2025-03-21T19:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T23:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/?post_type=update&#038;p=5530"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:48:10","slug":"leslie-fields-discusses-disparate-impacts-of-epa-rollbacks-with-capital-b-march-21-2025","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/leslie-fields-discusses-disparate-impacts-of-epa-rollbacks-with-capital-b-march-21-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Fields Discusses Disparate Impacts of EPA Rollbacks with Capital B &#8211; March 21, 2025"},"template":"","class_list":["post-5530","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_type-news","focus_tax-clean-air","focus_tax-healthy-communities","person_tax-leslie-fields"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":5828,"update_type":[14],"focus_area":[5,9],"authors":[197],"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_links","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_hero_links":{"title":"","abstract":"","links":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Leslie Fields was featured in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/epa-trump-deregulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capital B<\/a>\u00a0article on the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s regulatory rollbacks and what they will mean for communities of color. 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