https://www.afinalwarning.com/501755.html (Natural News) Much of the news coverage surrounding Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans in August 2005, focused on the flooding and damage to homes caused by the storm. One aspect that didn’t get as much attention were the resulting oil spills.
More than a week after the storm, crude oil was still leaking from damaged drilling rigs, toppled storage tanks and broken pipelines from New Orleans down to the mouth of the Mississippi River. Shortly after that, Hurricane Rita made matters worse by pushing the oil let loose by Katrina further inland and inflicting further damage on oil tankers.
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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
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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.