‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Win Petrochemical Suit Appeal: Opportunity for Justice

‘Cancer Alley’ Residents Win Petrochemical Suit Appeal: Opportunity for Justice

In a unanimous decision in April, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit gave new life to a hard-fought effort by residents of St. James Parish in Louisiana to seek a moratorium on new petrochemical plant construction and expansion.

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

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 …