by ProPublica, Childrens Health Defense:

Black residents in southeastern Louisiana bear a disproportionate cancer risk from industrial air pollution, with children at one predominantly Black elementary school having been exposed to a dangerous carcinogen at levels 11 times what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers acceptable.

Louisiana must examine how polluters imperil the health of Black residents, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in a letter it sent on Oct. 12 to state regulators in response to civil rights complaints about air pollution in the region known as Cancer Alley.