The Louisiana School Board voted to close Fifth Ward Elementary due to toxic emissions concerns and low enrollment.
A southeast Louisiana school board voted to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school next to a petrochemical ...
The governor says simplifying permitting will help attract jobs and investment to Louisiana. Environmental groups say more ...
On Jan. 27, 2021, newly-elected President Joe Biden announced the Justice40 initiative. The initiative’s goals are ambitious: ...
The school is also in a U.S. census tract with the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, according to an ...
Pam Spees speaks in New Orleans during a press conference following a hearing addressing environmental racism in Cancer Alley in October 2024. (Sabrina Canfield/Courthouse News) A press conference ...
Louisiana averaged 130.4 cases of breast cancer per 100,000 people, including all stages from 2017 to 2021. An average of 3,708 people in Louisiana will be diagnosed with breast cancer each ...
The findings by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade may have implications ... remains across the larger industrial corridor, dubbed "Cancer Alley" by advocates. The company said that it has respected ...
St John the Baptist Parish is located in Cancer Alley, an industrial stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge with extremely high cancer risks compared to the rest of the state due to air pollution ...
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Antonique Smith grew up north of a chemical plant in New Jersey. She still remembers the smell that lingered as she drove by on the state’s Turnpike. “It's very ...
The region has been nicknamed Cancer Alley since the 1980s. In 2021, a peer-reviewed study estimated that toxic air pollution leads to 85 cancer cases in Louisiana each year, linking higher pollution ...