Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Take the Fight for Environmental Justice on the Road

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By Julie DermanskyJul 8, 2019, 9:17 pm250 pts
Read time: 9 mins Last month, four residents from Louisiana neighborhoods impacted by air pollution traveled far from their Mississippi River parishes to Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan, seeking help in their struggle for clean air. St. James Parish’s Sharon Lavigne and Barbara Washington, both fighting…

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