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Read time: 12 mins By Julie Dermansky • Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 14:10
Mary Hampton, president of the Concerned Citizens of St. John the Baptist Parish, a community group in Louisiana fighting for clean air, opted to do everything in her power to avoid getting the coronavirus after Robert Taylor, the group’s founder, was hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this year. So she got vaccinated as soon as she could. “Either the vaccine is going to make me sick,” Hampton reasoned, “or the virus is going to kill me.”
Like many African Americans, Hampton’s hesitation around vaccination stems from hearing about the way Black men were left to suffer during the Tuskegee syphilis study, an experiment between 1932 and 1972 which withheld lifesaving treatment, and from her own lifetime of experiences with unequal healthcare access. She told me that she and her family often had to wait hours to see a doctor for medical car
Key Takeaways What: On January 4, 2021, EPA determined that community-specific warnings regarding ethylene oxide (EO) risks need not be made immediately. EPA has now.
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Senator Bill Cassidy acknowledged that Louisiana had higher rates of cancer than other states but denied it down to the petrochemical industry, and instead blamed lifestyle choices (Getty Images)
A Republican senator from Louisiana has taken offense to President Joe Biden’s recent reference to the state’s “Cancer Alley”.
During a call with reporters this week, Senator Bill Cassidy called the description a “slam upon our state”.
“I m not going to accept that sort of slam upon our state,” Sen Cassidy said, according to Nola.com. “It sounds like great rhetoric. But again, I don t accept that slam.
A CRA To Meet the Challenge of Climate Change
Advancing the Fight Against Environmental Racism Getty/Thomas B. Shea/AFP
A car gets towed while men walk in floodwaters on a road in Houston, August 2017, in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
Julia Cusick
Introduction and summary
A federal law passed more than 40 years ago to address the discriminatory practice of redlining in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color can and should be modernized to address other systemic racism-fueled inequities. These inequities, including the disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and climate-related challenges, have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was enacted in 1977 to combat redlining the practice of systematically denying mortgages and other financial services to communities based on their racial makeup and other forms of racial discrimination in lending. The CRA should be updated to spur lending, investment, and other se