cancer alley
- January 25, 2024
- Posted by: Inclusive Louisiana
- Category: Media
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.
- February 15, 2023
- Posted by: Inclusive Louisiana
- Category: Media
The global plastics and petrochemical industry wants to build toxic facilities in Black communities. But residents of “Cancer Alley,” Louisiana, are fighting back.
- February 1, 2023
- Posted by: Inclusive Louisiana
- Category: Media
Inclusive Louisiana, Beyond Plastics, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and the Descendants Project staged a multi-parish tour Friday of several river facilities, in a bid to raise awareness about their efforts to ward off more industrial developments in St. James, St. John and St. Charles parishes.