Majority Black Louisiana elementary school to shut down amid lawsuits over toxic air exposure
- A southeast Louisiana school board voted 7 to 4 to shut down 5th Ward Elementary due to health risks from toxic emissions from a nearby petrochemical facility.
- The Environmental Protection Agency reported that the facility exposes the predominantly Black community to an unacceptable cancer risk, affecting several hundred students.
- The NAACP's Legal Defense Fund argued that the school board violated a desegregation order by exposing Black students to pollution without providing closer alternative schools.
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