Environmental racism in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

A small U.S. community, with some of the country’s highest cancer rates, is taking on some big industrial polluters. The corridor of land in Louisiana between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is home to some 150 petrochemical plants – one for roughly every 650 residents. But the largely African American population, themselves descendants of enslaved people, are also trying to stop the multinational companies from erasing their ancestors’ past. CGTN’s Nick Harper reports from Donaldsonville, Louisiana.

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