Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers

Chemical Plants Near Black Neighborhoods Pollute While Hiring Few Black Workers

A new study confirms what locals and environmental activists across the Gulf South and beyond have said for years: Black, Brown and Indigenous workers do not benefit equitably from jobs offered by the petrochemical industry despite their communities often bearing the brunt of its pollution. In Louisiana, for example, residents and activists say jobs promised to Black communities located near… Source

In Cancer Alley, There’s No Pollution Monitoring While Black

Over the past few years, some homes in the 90% Black census tract located uncomfortably close to the proposed Formosa Plastics plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana, have been outfitted with new air quality monitors.  The proposed plant would be in the River Parishes — the 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and Louisiana, more infamously known as Cancer Alley. And there are already numerous petrochemical facilities nearby, which spew carcinogens…