Thousands of people were evacuated when a fire erupted at an oil refinery in St. John Parish, Louisiana on August 25.
Such events are all-too-common for those living near and working in fossil fuel and petrochemical zones. #CancerAlley
Massive explosion at Louisiana chemical plant in #CancerAlley caught on video. Residents are told to stay inside. This is just one more example of the deadly impacts that Black, Brown & Lower-wealth white communities have to live with every day! Now add the #extremeheat on top ofโฆ
With Beyond Plastics in #CancerAlley . So much poison. So much hope. Louisiana Bucket Brigade The Descendants Project (Louisiana) Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Tom Henry
Marathon refinery fire in Cancer Alley this afternoon. Black smoke rising from flareups but nothing to worry about official say. #pollutionevent #ClimateCrisis #nothingtoseehere #fire #canceralley
Day 2 of the โฆDeep South Center for Environmental Justiceโฉ and โฆBullard Center for Environmental & Climate Justiceโฉ #HBCUCC Conference 2023. Driving through St John the Baptist Parish in the heart of #CancerAlley on our way to the Whitney Plantation Museum โฆPaul Quinnโฉ
Cancer Alley's New Tumor: Formosa Plastics' Monstrous Misdeeds
Formosa Plastics, a titan of environmental negligence, wants to carve its grotesque mark on a landscape already scarred by industrial greed.
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#FormosaPlastics #CancerAlley #Louisianna
โWhen Will We Stop Sacrificing The Vulnerable?โ
In traversing the vast stretches of this land, from the cries of #EastPalestine to the deadly air of #CancerAlley , from #Flint 's poisoned waters to #Jackson 's crumbling veins, and the suffocated breaths of Institute West Virginia, Iโฆ
For more on Jo Banner's work on #environmentaljustice in the stretch of Louisiana known as #CancerAlley , check out this video from our #FacesofChange series: youtu.be/nLNTx1_M_dY
Close #CancerAlley by Walt Handelsman
Lee West ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธร๐ฌ๐ง โ ciar (catch-up mode!)~๐ John Newman Allison Cobb Voter ๐ American Times โ
Docuseries Rev Dr Kathleen Raphael DD LPN ๐ฅ๐ด๐นBornOnAFriday ๐น๐ด๐ฅ Alesha Ticked Off Trish ๐๐ท๐บ๐ธโ๏ธ Southern Sister Resister - Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm Celestial Sojourner Ed Jarrin Cajun Rogue๐๐โ๏ธโ๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐๐๐ซDMs Cajun Rogue๐๐โ๏ธโ๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐๐๐ซDMs Linda Marks Russ Fraley
Donโt miss the new exhibit at our visitor center, Extractivism, from Jazmin Miller & Anya Groner using digital recordings of descendants in Jonestown, LA to showcase how families have survived and thrived in #CancerAlley since the time of slavery.
Free & open to the public.
The U.S. EPA flexes muscle, targeting cancer-causing emissions from chemical and sterilization plants.
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#scotus #CleanAirAct @ExxonMobil Earthjustice The Washington Post #CancerAlley
Why donโt you spend more time looking for the causes of cancer in the state of Louisiana instead of this BS #CancerAlley #Louisiana instagram.com/reel/C5mOKawRCโฆ
For our second spotlight on Frontline Communities, we're talking about #CancerAlley on the #GulfCoast .
3/3: New gas developments will increase climate-warming emissions and pollution-related health risks, such as cancer and respiratory diseases. Its effects will be outsized in poor and marginalized parts of our country, like #CancerAlley . Stop the fracking madness! #ClimateJustice
In Louisianaโs Cancer Alley, residents are caught between the toxic legacy of slavery & the toxic presence of heavy industry - refineries & chemical plants today occupy former plantation land. #ToxicTour #PetrochemicalIndustry #CancerAlley
Save the date! Join us on March 17th, 5-8pm for an #Artist Talk and Q&A with Anya Groner and Jazmin Miller. The #discussion will start at 6 pm. They've spent 2 years documenting #CancerAlley , an 85-mile stretch with over 150 petrochemical plants and refineries.
Join us on Thursday!
Learn more at buff.ly/3oNKc8z
#PSRPA #Pennsylvania #OilandGas #CancerAlley #Louisiana #Fracking #Pollution
