Cancer Alley Residents Decry ‘Environmental Racism’ in Louisiana

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Environmental groups and Louisiana residents of a rural, majority-black area on the Mississippi River filed a records request Monday seeking answers to why St. James Parish officials “basically changed the black district into the petrochemical district.”
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