Black residents win key ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ environmental racism case
Lawyers for residents say that zoning that concentrates pollution in Black districts is a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
Tag: industrial pollution
Grassroots air monitoring helps people track pollution in their own backyards. Those efforts are under threat in Louisiana.
As the state limits sharing of independent data, the Trump administration is delaying new testing requirements for dozens of chemical plants around the Mississippi River Basin.
EPA blind spots leave workers unprotected from ethylene oxide’s cancer risks
Frequent contact with the carcinogen ethylene oxide can boost the odds of developing cancer up to 60 times — risk levels that should raise red flags in Louisiana, which produces 20% of the nation’s ethylene oxide emissions within its 85-mile industrial corridor, known as Cancer Alley.
Nobody seems to want carbon capture — not even Air Products
Air Products wants to off-load its risk for a proposed carbon-capture project in Lake Maurepas, which the writers see as a signal that carbon-capture technology, “a corporate experiment,” is also too risky for the state of Louisiana.
