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Jason Yip<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a> administration to drop case against plant polluting <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Louisiana</a> ’s ‘<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CancerAlley</a>’ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-cancer-alley-plant-biden-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-cancer-alley-plant-biden-lawsuit</a>

George StationIt took decades to make any headway at all, and that progress just got wiped out with the stroke of a Sharpie®<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOJ</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#discrimination</a> <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-cancer-alley-residents-fight-for-public-health-after-trump-drops-biden-era-pollution-lawsuit-234285637688" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-cancer-alley-residents-fight-for-public-health-after-trump-drops-biden-era-pollution-lawsuit-234285637688</a>

Geriatric Gardener<a href="https://mastodon.green/@christineburns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@christineburns</a> Exactly!Don’t know if you’ve seen this in today’s Grauniad?It’s absolutely horrrendous & heartbreaking what the plundering US neoliberal profiteers are doing to the Gulf of Mexico and in poor Gulf states like Louisiana & Mississippi!“Trump has brought much-needed attention to a site of great tragedy: the Gulf of Mexico”by Greg Grandin<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/trump-gulf-of-mexico?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/trump-gulf-of-mexico?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gulf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gulf</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oil</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Extraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Extraction</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Poison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Poison</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wildlife</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HumanCost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanCost</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MAGA</a>

toussaint<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cancer</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Climate</a> <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/formaldehyde-cancer-risk-map/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://projects.propublica.org/formaldehyde-cancer-risk-map/</a>

toussainti dont understand why these folks in <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> dont want the 15 jobs this ammonia plant will provide <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateJustice</a> <a href="https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-cancer-alley-proposed-ammonia-facility-aa73e7164e2dee1a97eb2bbe007152d6?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/louisiana-cancer-alley-proposed-ammonia-facility-aa73e7164e2dee1a97eb2bbe007152d6?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter</a>

Larry NeufeldBig Oil doesn't like to take responsibility for their damages: The huge US toxic fire shrouded in secrecy: ‘I taste oil in my mouth’ <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/fossilfuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossilfuels</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#health</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/marathon-oil-fire-louisiana-cancer-alley?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/09/marathon-oil-fire-louisiana-cancer-alley?CMP=share_btn_url</a>

JdeB434 <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateEquity</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/RacialIssue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RacialIssue</a>"Federal judge rolls back key civil rights protections in Louisiana’s ‘sacrifice zones’" by Lylla Younes for Grist [Aug 23 2024]<a href="https://grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-james-cain-louisiana/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://grist.org/equity/title-vi-epa-james-cain-louisiana/</a> Quotes: "The decision could open the door for other industry-friendly states to follow suit.""Earlier this week, in a culmination of a decade-long fight, James Cain, a federal judge in Louisiana who was appointed by president Trump, decided to block the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice from pursuing enforcement actions based on “disparate impacts” — or the idea that a regulation might disproportionately harm one group of people over another. A provision of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VI allows federal agencies to take action against state policies and programs that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin.""the public-interest environmental law organization Earthjustice, sued the agency for this practice and won. Five years later, after president Biden took office, federal regulators finally began addressing the civil rights complaints they received and the EPA announced a civil-rights probe into Cancer Alley""...Documents obtained by Grist last year indicated that the federal government was making significant progress../ \..Then in May 2023, Jeff Landry, then the attorney general (and now the governor) of Louisiana, filed a lawsuit against the EPA../ \..On the basis that the agency was overstepping its authority, Landry’s suit challenged not only the EPA’s use of Title VI to regulate pollution in Louisiana, but also the very legal justification of disparate-impacts regulation, which reaches thousands of programs across the country.AND NOW READ THIS QUOTE: "Advocates worried that the lawsuit had the potential to unravel decades of civil rights law. This week’s decision puts those concerns to rest, for now.""Louisiana’s lawsuit was just one instance in a spate of right-wing attacks against the EPA’s use of civil rights law to regulate pollution in neighborhoods of color. In April, Republican attorneys general from 23 states filed a petition with the Biden administration’s EPA asking the agency to stop using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to regulate pollution. The effort was led by Florida’s Ashley Moody, and compared the EPA’s efforts at tacking environmental justice through civil rights law to “racial engineering.” The EPA has not yet responded to the petition. [Now who is racial enineering who ?? JdeB]"Whether they appeal or not, Judge Cain’s decision is not binding on any other district courts. However, Chizewer [attorney at Earthjustice] cautioned, “if another state filed a case using the same theories, they will point to this case as persuasive authority for another court to consider.”"In Louisiana, the decision means that communities have one less tool at their disposal to fight a slate of new oil and gas facilities soon to break ground.""“Louisiana has given industrial polluters open license to poison Black and brown communities for generations, only to now have one court give it a permanent free pass to abandon its responsibilities,” said Earthjustice Vice President for Healthy Communities Patrice Simms in a statement. “Louisiana’s residents, its environmental justice communities, deserve the same Title VI protections as the rest of the nation.” Even if they screw you: <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/VoteBlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VoteBlue</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UpAndDownTheBallot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UpAndDownTheBallot</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ImWithHer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ImWithHer</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesIn what certainly feels like fallout from the Supreme Courts disastrous ruling against affirmative action, a Louisiana federal judge has used the "considering race is itself racism" argument to permanently block EPA intervention in the state against corporate polluters whose activities disproportionately affect marginalized, primarily non-white communities.<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/louisiana-ruling-epa-civil-rights" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/louisiana-ruling-epa-civil-rights</a>Federal Judge Gives Louisiana Polluters a 'Free Pass' to Harm Communities of Color"Louisiana has given industrial polluters open license to poison Black and brown communities for generations, only to now have one court give it a permanent free pass to abandon its responsibilities," Patrice Simms, a vice president at Earthjustice, said in a statement.The ruling forbids the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice from enforcing "disparate-impact requirements" under Title VI the 1964 Civil Rights Act in the state of Louisiana. The ruling affects permitting for industrial projects and could, according to Earthjustice, even be applied to "basic services such as sewage, drinking water, and health services."Although this article is painfully brief, the background you need to know here is that for decades governments all across the country have been turning a blind eye to corporate and industrial pollution in marginalized, non-white communities; actions facilitated by the U.S. government's own racist history of "redlining" in housing policy. Although we've known about the problem for decades, the EPA under the Biden administration only recently began acting to combat this environmental racism, by applying the "disparate impact standard" of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which greenlighting contaminating facilities in non-white communities violates; violations that again, we know have been going on for decades and decades now.Well, the crackers running states like Louisiana didn't like that very much, and sued to block the EPA from bringing these types of cases, arguing that factoring in the race of the people living in communities affected by this pollution, is itself a form of racism. Which pretty much only makes sense if you accept ahistorical arguments pushed forward by white supremacists (and thus many Republicans) in our society. Realizing that this suit and others like it would eventually reach a Supreme Court prepared to turn those power-blind, ahistorical arguments into legally-binding precedent, the EPA dropped its actions against Louisiana, in effect to keep the door open a crack to combat environmental racism in the future, perhaps under a Supreme Court less high on reverse racism propaganda and fuckery.Whelp, that wasn't good enough for U.S. District Court Judge James Cain, who allowed Louisiana's suit to go through anyway, and has now issued a permanent ruling that effectively blocks the EPA and the DoJ from enforcing Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act throughout the entire state entirely - not just in the Cancer Alley investigation, but apparently for any reason at all. Although Cain didn't say so, I think any reasonable observer can conclude that along with their dismantling of Dobbs, and piece by piece destruction of the Voting Rights Act, the fascist federal judiciary is also very interested in dismantling and disempowering the Civil Rights Act as part of its quest to codify a permanent white supremacist society in America; and rulings just like Cain's are how they're going to try to achieve that objective.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Justice</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/EvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/JamesCain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JamesCain</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/1964CivilRightsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#1964CivilRightsAct</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacy</a>

Richard R Lee<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CarbonCaptureGrifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarbonCaptureGrifters</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> go together; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corruption</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Greed</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Avarice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Avarice</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nihilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nihilism</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CCS</a> is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BridgeToNowhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BridgeToNowhere</a> and will only increase <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#carbon</a> in the atmosphere. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkingTheCarbonCaptureGrift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkingTheCarbonCaptureGrift</a> where it can be least afforded (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a>). <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HydrogenGrifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HydrogenGrifters</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/29/carbon-capture-pollution-louisiana-cancer-alley?CMP=share_btn_url" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/29/carbon-capture-pollution-louisiana-cancer-alley?CMP=share_btn_url</a>

Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️<a href="https://flipboard.com/@TheRoot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@TheRoot</a> <a href="https://flipboard.com/@theroot/politics-a7f432l6z" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@politics-TheRoot</a> “Ethylene oxide so toxic, red flag levels…start at anything over 11 parts per trillion. The team found levels …[of]40 parts per billion…close to industrial facilities. They…detected concerning amounts…as much as 10 kilometers downwind from the plants.“…concentrations …[of]40 parts per billion…is more a thousand times higher than the accepted risk for lifetime exposure,” <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ethyleneoxide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ethyleneoxide</a>Via <a href="https://mastodon.ie/@harriettmb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@harriettmb</a>

JdeB333 <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a>'t Was only yesterday I shared a toot on the very same topic: <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOil</a> suing the EPA so as not to be forced to clean up their act. [ 24-06-19 <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/EnvironmentProtectionAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentProtectionAgency</a> ] Do I need to mention that the people living in the affected areas are predominantly <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PoorAndBlack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoorAndBlack</a>"Real-time data show the air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ is even worse than expected" by Naveena Sadasivam for Grist 11th Jun '24<a href="https://grist.org/science/louisiana-cancer-alley-ethylene-oxide-study/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://grist.org/science/louisiana-cancer-alley-ethylene-oxide-study/</a>Quotes: "A new study finds levels of the carcinogen ethylene oxide that are nine times higher than those estimated by the EPA’s models.""Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The name stems from the fact that the area’s residents have a 95 percent greater chance of developing cancer than the average American.""But even though the general risks of living in the region have been clear for decades, the exact dangers are still coming into focus — and the latest data show that the EPA’s modeling has dramatically underestimated the levels of ethylene oxide in southeastern Louisiana""The monitors detected levels that were as many as 10 times higher than EPA thresholds, and the researchers were able to detect plumes of the toxin spewing from the facilities from as many as seven miles away.""DeCarlo and his team found that, in three quarters of the regions where they collected data, ethylene oxide levels were above the 11 parts per trillion threshold. On average, the level was roughly 31 parts per trillion. In some extreme cases, they observed area averages above 109 parts per trillion.""Tracey Woodruff, a professor studying the impact of chemicals on health at the University of California in San Francisco, said that the study “affirms that EPA is doing the right thing to regulate” ethylene oxide and that the agency “needs to improve their modeling data.” The levels identified by the researchers are nine times higher than those estimated by the EPA’s models.""For residents in the area, the study’s findings confirm their lived experience. Sharon Lavigne, the founder of Rise St. James, a community organization battling the expansion of the petrochemical industry in St. James Parish, told Grist that the study “is a step in the right direction” and helps the community get a deeper understanding of what they’re being exposed to. But ultimately, without accountability and follow-through, monitoring data will do little to help her family and neighbors. "

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#America</a>'s Notorious '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a>' Is Even More <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Toxic</a> Than We ThoughtA new study finds levels of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carcinogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#carcinogen</a> ethylene oxide that are nine times higher than those estimated by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a>’s models.By Naveena Sadasivam, Grist June 11, 2024"Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MississippiRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MississippiRiver</a> that connects <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewOrleans</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatonRouge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BatonRouge</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a>, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The name stems from the fact that the area’s residents have a 95% greater chance of developing cancer than the average American. A big reason for this is the concentration of industrial facilities along the corridor — particularly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/petrochemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#petrochemical</a> manufacturing plants, many of which emit ethylene oxide, an extremely potent toxin that is considered a carcinogen by the Environmental Protection Agency and has been linked to breast and lung cancers."Read more: <a href="https://gizmodo.com/americas-notorious-cancer-alley-is-even-more-toxic-than-1851532462?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gizmodo.com/americas-notorious-cancer-alley-is-even-more-toxic-than-1851532462?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPAFail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPAFail</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOilAndGas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oiligarchy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corporatocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corporatocracy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOil</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ExxonKnew</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigOilKnew</a>

TakeActionTell President Biden to REJECT the toxic factory in Cancer Alley!<a href="https://action.foe.org/page/67061" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://action.foe.org/page/67061</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/savetheplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#savetheplanet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environmentprotection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environmentprotection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/save_the_planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#save_the_planet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate_change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate_change</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment_protection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment_protection</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatecrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate_crisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate_crisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climateemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateemergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate_emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climate_emergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toxic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cancer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canceralley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#canceralley</a>

corpwatchTwo surfers investigate the toxic impact of making neoprene (used to make wetsuits) by Denka on Cancer Alley, an area of Louisiana along the Mississippi River where smoke stacks fill the skyline, for new documentary (The Big Sea).<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/16/perfect-wetsuit-surfers-swimmers-neoprene-carcinogenic-recycling-harm-planet-natural-rubber" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/16/perfect-wetsuit-surfers-swimmers-neoprene-carcinogenic-recycling-harm-planet-natural-rubber</a>

Chuck DarwinLouisiana governor accused of using public records law to intimidate EPA and ‘Cancer Alley’ community Louisiana’s far-right government has quietly obtained hundreds of pages of communications between the Environmental Protection Agency and journalists, legal advocates and community groups focused on environmental justice. The rare use of public records law to target citizens is a new escalation in the state’s battle with the EPA over its examination of alleged civil rights violations in the heavily polluted region known as “Cancer Alley”.Louisiana sued the EPA on 19 December, alleging that the federal agency had failed to properly respond to the state’s sprawling Freedom of Information Act, or Foia, request sent by the former state attorney general Jeff Landry.Court filings note that the public records case is related to another, ongoing lawsuit brought against the EPA by Landry, a staunch advocate for the oil and gas industry who now serves as Louisiana’s governor. Shortly after Landry’s suit was filed, the EPA dropped its investigation into the Louisiana department of environmental quality’s permitting practices, which advocates say disproportionately affect Black residents in Cancer Alley.News that the state has sought to obtain such an array of communications as part of its efforts prompted allegations of intimidation from many of the Black residents who were targeted. It has also raised press freedom concerns for media organizations included in the request, described by Foia experts as extremely unusual. <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/louisiana" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@louisiana</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/oilpollution" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@oilpollution</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/canceralley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#canceralley</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/louisiana-sues-epa-emails-journalists-cancer-alley-residents?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/louisiana-sues-epa-emails-journalists-cancer-alley-residents?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a>

Killer Rabbit 90Louisiana Sues EPA for Emails With Journalists and Cancer Alley Residents <a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/02/02/louisiana-sues-epa-emails-foia/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2024/02/02/louisiana-sues-epa-emails-foia/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Louisianna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisianna</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FarRightNutjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FarRightNutjobs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CivilRights</a>

Killer Rabbit 90&quot;We're Dying Here&quot;: Human Rights Watch on the Fight for Life in Louisiana's Fossil Fuel Cancer Alley <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/30/cancer_alley_louisiana" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/30/cancer_alley_louisiana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#louisiana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FossilFuelCriminals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuelCriminals</a>

Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DemocracyNow</a> reports in the wake of Biden Administration’s decision to “pause” development of LNG terminals in Louisiana. Link to Roishetta Sibley Ozane, founder and director of The Vessel Project. Interview with the inimitable Antonia Juhasz about <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/HumanRightsWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRightsWatch</a> Louisiana’s “cancer alley” report and Amnesty International’s report on Houston’s chemical industry.<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/30/biden_pauses_lng_plants" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/30/biden_pauses_lng_plants</a><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/LNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LNG</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AntoniaJuhasz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntoniaJuhasz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Houston</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/BatonRouge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BatonRouge</a>

MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:<a href="https://todon.eu/tags/DemocracyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DemocracyNow</a>The Devastating Toll of the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/FossilFuelIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuelIndustry</a> in <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a>’s <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO38MBoXt34" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO38MBoXt34</a>

joe•iuculano :mastodon:If <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Formosa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Formosa</a>'s megaproject goes through, it could more than triple <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cancer</a> risk in parts of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StJamesParish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StJamesParish</a>."... clearing the way for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Taiwanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taiwanese</a> chemical giant to start building its $9.4 billion <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SunshineProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunshineProject</a> along a stretch of land on the lower <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MississippiRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MississippiRiver</a> known as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CancerAlley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CancerAlley</a>, where hundreds of chemical plants spew toxic <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollution</a> into the air of predominantly <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Black</a> communities"<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Environment</a><a href="https://grist.org/regulation/louisiana-court-revived-biggest-plastic-plant-formosa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://grist.org/regulation/louisiana-court-revived-biggest-plastic-plant-formosa/</a>

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