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A mound of oil drums near the Baton Rouge ExxonMobil Refinery along the Mississippi River in December 1972.. Cancer Alley is the regional nickname given to an 85-mile (137 km) stretch of land [1] along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, in the River Parishes of Louisiana, which contains over 200 [2] petrochemical plants and refineries. [3]
This area known as Cancer Alley is often cited as one of the most toxic areas in the country with residents claiming a host of ailments and health conditions. Cancer Alley is the 107 mile stretch along the Mississippi River that runs between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. [1] More than 150 environmental hazards and waste dumps are located in the ...
In 1992 Wright became the founder and executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) at Dillard University. [4] [5] The DSCEJ is a community–university partnership that investigates the impacts of environmental and health inequality along the Lower Mississippi River Industrial Center, which is so polluted that it became known as Cancer Alley.
At the time, St. John the Baptist Parish had the highest cancer risk in the U.S. Today, the cancer risk is still nearly seven times the national average, according to the EPA. The Denka plant sits ...
Their sentiments echo those of residents who live in other towns along Louisiana's Cancer Alley, an 85-mile (135-kilometer) corridor running along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and ...
An agricultural company made the surprise decision Tuesday to cancel a project to build a massive grain terminal in a historic Black town in Louisiana's “Cancer Alley," a heavily industrialized ...
The company’s announcement signaled a rare win for a community in a heavily industrialized stretch of the Mississippi River known as “Cancer Alley” for its high levels of pollution. Wallace is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west of New Orleans.
UNHR’s research also found that one-third of residents living in Cancer Alley have irregular breathing and that among the residents of Cancer Alley they surveyed, the p-value for cancer currency is 3.43 percent. [6] In 1973, a Shell pipeline exploded in Norco. [4] This incident killed an elderly woman and a teenage boy.