Another Death in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Brings Environmental Activists Together to Honor One of Their Own

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By Julie DermanskyAug 10, 2019, 3:10 pm898 ptsTrendingInterestingTop
Read time: 7 mins On August 8, after Geraldine Mayho’s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks. The tanks are like those that surround the Burton Lane neighborhood in St. James where she had lived, and…

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