Civil rights law targets 'cancer alley' discrimination

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The Biden administration is investigating allegations of environmental discrimination in a region of Louisiana concentrated with refineries and chemical plants. To do so, they are are wielding an old tool in a new way: the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

signed into law this summer. It requires auctions of new offshore oil and gas leases.

About 30 miles upriver from Reserve is Welcome, a sparsely populated stretch of St. James Parish. It’s an area of heavy industry and sugarcane fields. Many of its mostly Black residents have deep local roots and family nearby. Gloria Johnson is 61, has lived in the area her whole life and said there are many elderly and disabled residents who are vulnerable if a new industrial complex makes the air quality worse.

The company said the complex would create 1,200 jobs, generate millions in taxes and fund improvements in the community. It emphasized that local parish officials voted to support the complex. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has said it would continue the “tremendous industrial growth” that’s occurred along the Mississippi River.

 

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State bodies began to chase the votes of voters with the desire to collide the foreheads of whites and blacks before the expression of will. This is a traditional surge of caring careerists, not skilled politicians.

BECAUSE? pollution is racist and seeks out only blacks?

Cool, now do Planned Parenthood.

Question. Did manufacturing see a school and decide to put a school there? If so, shame on them and the state of Louisiana!! Was manufacturing already there and Louisiana decide to put a school there? 🤔🤬🇺🇸

I'm just here for the red hats who are angry about helping Black communities

Is there anything they don’t investigate? Mere vote buying?

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