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2. Cancer Alley - Wikipedia

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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]

3. List of Superfund sites in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Superfund sites in Louisiana designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]

4. Baton Rouge Refinery - Wikipedia

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   ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [2]

5. Researchers find higher levels of dangerous chemical than ...

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   Researchers using high-tech air monitoring equipment rolled through an industrialized stretch of southeast Louisiana in mobile labs and found levels of a carcinogen in concentrations as much as 20 ...

6. Louisiana chemical plant threatens to shut down if EPA ... - AOL

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   It’s located roughly a half-mile (.8 kilometer) from an elementary school in Reserve, Louisiana, and is within an 85-mile (137-kilometer) stretch of the state known officially as the Mississippi ...

7. Taft, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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   Taft is the location of a phosphate processing facility owned by The Mosaic Company (formerly IMC-Agrico); the Dow/Union Carbide Taft/Star Petrochemical Plant, which produces a variety of organic chemicals such as acrolein, acrylic acid, and acetaldehyde; and part of the Waterford Nuclear Generating Station owned by Entergy Corporation.