The USA PotatoBlack “Cancer Alley” Residents Win Key Ruling in Environmental Racism Case
The decision “recognizes what is at stake … [a] public health emergency that originated in slavery,” said an attorney.
Thế Giới Trong Tầm TayCon đường ung thư: Cuộc khủng hoảng ô nhiễm 85 dặm của Louisiana – 85 dặm ven sông Mississippi, nơi cư dân da màu chịu ô nhiễm và ung thư cao gấp 40 lần mức trung bình quốc gia. Cần hành động từ chính phủ và doanh nghiệp. #CancerAlley #MôiTrường #PhânBiệtChủngTộc #Louisiana https://ift.tt/SZ21aFG
Con đường ung thư: Cuộc khủng hoảng ô nhiễm 85 dặm của Louisiana - Thế Giới Trong Tầm Tay
Tại \"Con đường ung thư\" 85 dặm của Louisiana, các cộng đồng da màu đối mặt với ô nhiễm chết người từ hàng trăm nhà máy hóa chất, khơi dậy cuộc chiến chống phân biệt chủng tộc môi trường.
DoomsdaysCW#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
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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
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.
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Meet the Mother-Daughter Duo Fighting Pollution in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
A Guy Named Brian (he/him)“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
J.S. ClarkLooks 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
toussaintdo 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
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Fascinating 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.
(And the report itself, as well as other info, is at https://climateintegrity.org/projects/plastics-fraud)
#PlasticPollution #AirQualityMatters #toxicair #FalseClimateSolutions
