[Louisiana’s “Cancer Valley”]
PeaceVoice\Robert Koehler: “The project would double the amount of toxic air emissions in St. James Parish and more than triple the levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the region.”
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Anne Rolfes
LOUISIANA RESIDENTS, CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS DENOUNCE PLANS TO BUILD CHEMICAL PLANT IN BLACK COMMUNITY
[Environmental Racism]
Sharon Lavigne, president of RISE St. James: “We continue to fight for our lives against these toxic industries, and now we are fighting for our ancestors too. They had no choice about where they lived, where they died, or where they were buried, but we are going to fight for the respect that their resting places, and our homes deserve.”
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