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Louisiana Community Leaders to Meet with White House
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On Wednesday, September 18th, our founders, Gail LeBoeuf and Barbara Washington, met with White House officials in a groundbreaking discussion to review the administration’s progress on implementing recommendations from a United Nations body aimed at addressing environmental racism in Cancer Alley. In 2022, these community leaders traveled to Geneva to speak before the United Nations…

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EPA Announces Settlement with Mosaic Fertilizer for Alleged Chemical Accident Prevention Violations
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Mosaic Fertilizer

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized a settlement with Mosaic Fertilizer and Tampa Port Services over alleged violations of the chemical accident prevention provisions of the Clean Air Act at Mosaic’s facility in St. James, Louisiana.

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“We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone
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Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

Residents of Cancer Alley are the victims of deadly environmental pollution from the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. They face severe health harms including elevated burdens and risks of cancer, reproductive, maternal, and newborn health harms, and respiratory ailments. These harms are disproportionately borne by the area’s Black residents.

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