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Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement on March 2 raising concerns about the further industrialization of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” This largely Black-populated stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is lined with more than a hundred refineries and petrochemical plants. The experts said additional petrochemical development in this region, which U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data shows has some of the country’s highest cancer risks from air pollution, constitutes “environmental racism” that “must end.”
“This form of environmental racism poses serious and disproportionate threats to the enjoyment of several human rights of its largely African American residents, including the right to equality and non-discrimination, the right to life, the right to health, right to an adequate standard of living and cultural rights,” the experts said.
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The Democrats asked Biden to revoke a permit issued by the Army Corps of Engineers for the facility, which would be constructed in a heavily polluted area of Louisiana sometimes referred to as “Cancer Alley.”
“We write today to urge your administration to permanently revoke the construction permits . for the Formosa Plastics petrochemical complex located in St. James Parish deep in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley,” McEachin and Grijalva, the House Natural Resources Committee chairman, wrote to Biden on Wednesday.
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“This disastrous project is an affront to environmental justice and contrary to your goals to reduce pollution in frontline communities,” they added. “Formosa Plastics is the largest proposed new source of greenhouse gases in the nation, and, if completed, would compound adverse health effects, exacerbate racial inequality, and be among the largest polluting facilities in the United States.”
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