Show threadDoomsdaysCWNov 19

#Wikipedia - #UnitedStates
See also: #Superfund

"Perhaps the best-known sacrifice zone in the United States is '#CancerAlley' in #Louisiana, an 85-mile stretch of land along the #MississippiRiver containing over 200 #petrochemical plants. Serious air and water quality violations have been documented since the 1970s, and elevated #cancer risk has been found. The region's population is disproportionately #Black and #LowIncome.

"Commentators including Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco, Robert Bullard and Stephen Lerner have argued that #corporate business practices contribute to producing #SacrificeZones and that these zones most commonly exist in low-income and minority, usually #AfricanAmerican communities. Sacrifice zones are a central topic for the graphic novel #DaysOfDestructionDaysOfRevolt, written by Hedges and illustrated by Sacco.

"In 2012, Hedges stated that examples of sacrifice zones included #PineRidge, South Dakota and #CamdenNJ. In 2017 a #WestCalumet public housing project in East Chicago, Indiana built at the former site of a lead smelter needed to be demolished and soil replaced to bring the area up to residential standards, displacing 1000 residents. In 2014, Naomi Klein wrote that 'running an economy on energy sources that release poisons as an unavoidable part of their extraction and refining has always required sacrifice zones."

Related link:
The Spread of Sacrifice Zones
By David Swanson, June, 2012
https://cdn.countercurrents.org/swanson090612.htm

#BigOil #BigOilAndGas #SacrificeZones #SEZs #HumanRights #HumanRightsFreeZone #Pollution #EnvironmentalDegradation #EnvironmentalRacism #EconomicSacrificZones #WaterIsLife #Industries #IndustrialUse #PollutionSacrificeZones
#GlobalSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

The Spread of Sacrifice Zones By David Swanson

Divider Decider👩🏻‍⚖️🌊⚖️(Let me officiate)Sep 28
Divider AOC: “I’ve never seen anything like that!” “And frankly men who treat women like that in public, I fear how they treat them in private. WE CAN BE BETTER THAN THIS!” I fear more GOP attacks like #CancerAlley Rep. Higgins on @climateauntie.bsky.social. #BlueEarth #ResistanceEarth #DemVoice1
The USA PotatoSep 20

Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South

The American South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance.

https://murica.website/2025/09/big-tech-data-centers-compound-decades-of-environmental-racism-in-the-south/

Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South – The USA Potato

Shine My CrownAug 11
‘We’re Fighting for our Right to Breathe Clean Air’: Louisiana Family Confront Fossil Fuel Industry Over ‘Cancer Alley’ Pollution https://shinemycrown.com/were-fighting-for-our-right-to-breathe-clean-air-louisiana-family-confront-fossil-fuel-industry-over-cancer-alley-pollution/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #CleanAir #EnvironmentalJustice #CancerAlley #Pollution #FossilFuels
MusiqueNow   ✡️ 🇵🇸 Aug 1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YyuwluYRByg

#CancerAlley : #Billionaires and #EnvironmentalRacism

Meet the Mother-Daughter Duo Fighting Pollution in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"

YouTube
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)Jun 12

“Environmental advocates are questioning the actions of a private university in Louisiana following the resignation of a scientist who researches the health and job disparities in a heavily industrialized part of Louisiana known as ‘Cancer Alley.’”

#EnvironmentalJustice #AcademicFreedomsAtRisk #ClimateCrisis #CancerAlley #Research #LawClinic #TulaneUniversity #GagOrder #Science #EnvironmentalScience #PublicHealth #Jobs #RacialDisparities #HealthDisparities #Economics

https://floodlightnews.org/tulane-scientist-resigns-citing-gag-order-on-environmental-justice-research/

Tulane scientist resigns, citing ‘gag order’ on environmental justice research

Emails show a racial disparities study angered elected Louisiana officials and potential donors to a $600 million university-led redevelopment project

Floodlight
J.S. ClarkJun 9

Looks like those #toxins in #Louisiana's #canceralley are also causing mental impairments. This is some first-order dipsh*ttery right cheer. #antiscience #conspiracytheory #crackpot #toxic #nuttery

https://substack.com/@robynelyse/note/p-165540424?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=5fcl6k

Louisiana Is The Latest State To Try To Ban Non-Existent Chemtrails

Kind of love how the people who don't believe in actual climate change believe in this nonsense.

Wonkette
toussaintMay 13

do two wrongs make a right?

Wrong1: re-opening a known cancer causing plant in the middle of #CancerAlley while pulling all safety regs

Wrong2: trumps stupid china tariffs starting at 30% & rising from there

Right: plant losing $100B & closing due to high 'inflation'
https://www.nola.com/news/business/denka-neoprene-louisiana-trump-chloroprene-environment-justice-cancer-alley/article_9328ed8f-dff8-481a-a42a-94c39fc88c4d.html

Denka's controversial Louisiana plant suspends production, says future operations unclear

The plant has been a flashpoint in the debate over environmental justice in an area of Louisiana activists have labeled "Cancer Alley." Gov. Jeff Landry has defended the facility.

NOLA.com
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0May 6

Fascinating how the #ACC (American Chemical Council) and the #PlasticPolluters continue their disingenuous messaging, carefully selecting the data they present.

If you think "advanced recycling" is not polluting, ask yourself why most other petrochemical plants regularly violate emissions standards, why we have the #CancerAlley problem in LA. IN the SF Bay area, think about the fires and chemical releases and violation of emissions standards in the Richmond/Martinez refineries.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/06/plastic-advanced-recycling-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

(And the report itself, as well as other info, is at https://climateintegrity.org/projects/plastics-fraud)

#PlasticPollution #AirQualityMatters #toxicair #FalseClimateSolutions

Plastics industry pushed ‘advanced recycling’ despite knowing problems – report

Producers promoted chemical recycling – processes used to break plastics into constituent molecules – but knew of limitations

The Guardian
Show threadNonilexApr 23

#CancerAlley, a nickname dating to the 1980s, is an 85-mile stretch from New Orleans to Baton Rouge that is home to some 150 #ChemicalPlants & #oil refineries.

Multiple studies over years point to elevated #health risks, including one in 2022 that found nearly EVERY census tract in the area ranks in the top 5% nationally for #cancer risk.

In 2023, the #Biden admin sued Denka, demanding it eliminate the dangers posed by #chloroprene #emissions.

#Trump #EnvironmentalJustice #PublicHealth #law