The act builds on decades of local efforts to address the underlying racist tenets of how communities are exposed to pollution.
Louisiana’s Cancer Alley is home to more than 200 petrochemical plants, most of which are concentrated in poor, rural Black communities. a Black-led, nonprofit news organization reporting for Black communities across the country.
Environmental justice leaders across the country will attend the re-introduction announcement, including “Cancer Alley” resident Jo Banner, who works to preserve generational Black communities in Louisiana against the expansion of the petrochemical industry. Banner is a member of a community of environmental justice groups across the South that continue to advocate for a shift away from fossil fuel production.
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