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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The next stop for marchers is the Whitney slavery museum- a choice imbued with meaning because virtually the entire Louisiana petrochemical corridor sits on land that was once plantations (mostly sugar) worked by enslaved blacks.
For more on the linkages between plantation slavery and the siting of petrochemical and other heavy industrial plants read @oliverlaughland's meticulous research and analysis here.
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