cancer alley

September 4, 2013 - People from across the Gulf Coast will join in a national action on Sept. 21 calling on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline and the toxic burden it will bring to communities already suffering from dirty energy production.

August 1, 1998 - Boosters lured chemical companies to southeast Louisiana for “economic development.” What they got was a public health nightmare and charges of environmental racism. Welcome to what residents call “Cancer Alley.”

December 1, 1993 - This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 21 No. 4, "Clean Dreams." Find more from that issue here.