In Louisiana, Environmental Justice Advocates Ponder Next Steps After a Federal Judge Effectively Bars EPA Civil Rights Probes
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In Louisiana, Environmental Justice Advocates Ponder Next Steps After a Federal Judge Effectively Bars EPA Civil Rights Probes
When she was told that a federal judge’s ruling will effectively prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from pursuing civil rights claims against chemical manufacturers in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” local activist Tisha Taylor immediately thought of the Fifth Ward Elementary School. The 300-student school in Reserve, Louisiana, sits about the length of a football field away from the only industrial plant in the nation that emits chloroprene. Chloroprene, a suspected carcinogen, is a substance used in the production of the synthetic rubber, Neoprene. The students, virtually all of whom are Black or Latino, attend class in an area with the nation’s highest cancer risk from air pollution. In the days since the ruling was handed down last week, environmental justice advocates across Louisiana have wondered precisely how they might begin to move forward without the ability to use one of the EPA’s most potentially potent legal weapons to affect change.
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