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We’re here in St. John the Baptist and St. James parishes for a pollution tour. This is the Denka/Dupont plant that is poisoning the community. People are dying. It’s immoral. #Cancertown #CancerAlley
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This Denka/DuPont chemical plant is poisoning the community, and it’s effecting all of the residents, black, white, Latinx. #Cancertown #CancerAlley 
Strong community turnout this morning. Here at what was a plantation that destroyed black lives through slavery, what is now a plant destroying black, white, and brown lives through contamination. #Cancertown #CancerAlley
We’re getting started here in New Orleans. Watch live online now: breachrepairers.org/livestream #Cancertown
The testimonies of people like Robert Taylor living in an area known as #Cancertown are powerful, and the nation needs to hear them. Please share this livestream now and tell others to watch now: breachrepairers.org/livestream
All of the issues of the #PoorPeoplesCampaign intersect here in Louisiana. When we talk about addressing systemic racism, we’re talking about addressing disparate impacts on black and brown communities like we see here. #Cancertown
Tonight we are livestreaming a town hall event in partnership with @TheGuardian @GuardianUS @BRepairers & @Louisiana_PPC starting at 6pm CT - #Cancertown: A conversation on the most toxic air in America. Join us: breachrepairers.org/cancertown
@theguardian @GuardianUS @BRepairers @Louisiana_PPC @jnmulholland @oliverlaughland @guardian America may be one of the only places in the world where corporations can make something as sacred as air, toxic.
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@theguardian @GuardianUS @BRepairers @Louisiana_PPC @jnmulholland @oliverlaughland @guardian For corporations to knowingly & deliberately poison the air consumed by poor people they think can’t fight back is sinful, shameful & a violation of fundamental human rights.
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In Reserve, Louisiana, where earlier this month we brought you the first installment of our #cancertown series, a coalition of groups are marching in the shadow of the Denka/Dupont Ponchartrain Works facility- the most cancer-causing air polluter in the US according to the EPA.
Marchers' demands include a moratorium on new petrochemical plants in the Louisiana river parishes, which, thanks to cheap land, easy transport and lax regulation, is already home to hundreds of polluting industrial sites.
If you missed the series you can get caught up here. 'Almost every household has someone that has died from cancer'
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“In the tract of land where Mary Hampton lives, the risk of cancer from air toxicity is 50 times the national average. The highest of anywhere in the US.”
Denka has consistently rejected the EPA’s guidance and its findings on cancer risk in ambient air in the parish, suggesting to the Guardian they are not based on “sound science”.
