“Louisiana need to look at how polluters imperil the well being of Black inhabitants,” the Environmental Defense Agency said in a letter it despatched final week to point out regulators in response to civil legal rights problems about air air pollution in the location regarded as Most cancers Alley.
Black residents in southeastern Louisiana bear a disproportionate cancer danger from industrial air pollution, the agency uncovered, with children at 1 predominantly Black elementary faculty having been exposed to a dangerous carcinogen at amounts 11 occasions what the EPA considers suitable.
ProPublica described past yr that the EPA does a lousy job of regulating the blended danger from many sources of industrial air air pollution. In sections of Cancer Alley, ProPublica estimated lifetime most cancers danger is up to 47 instances what the EPA deems acceptable.
The EPA letter urged Louisiana’s environmental and health agencies to review […]