Court delivers major victory in case challenging harmful government practice: 'Now we can finally get back to the urgent work'

Court delivers major victory in case challenging harmful government practice: 'Now we can finally get back to the urgent work'

A 2023 lawsuit against a South Louisiana parish regarding pollution is back in court, according to Reuters. The lawsuit alleges that predominantly Black neighborhoods in St. James Parish had been inordinately subjected to petrochemical emissions. A study from a grade school in neighboring St. John the Baptist Parish suggested students were being subjected to the "highest theoretical cancer risk in the nation." The risk earned a stretch of land i…