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Black Americans have disproportionately suffered from pollution. It’s time for a new policy.
Vox.com
2/26/2021
Rachel Ramirez
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Environmental justice activist Sharon Lavigne stands outside her home in St. James, Louisiana, on February 23, 2021.
Sharon Lavigne has lived in St. James Parish, Louisiana, a predominantly Black community, all her life. She remembers when the air wasn’t covered with thick gray smog, when the water was still safe to drink, when the gardens were productive and fertile.
But now, she says, “we are sick and we are dying.”
Lavigne has watched her neighbors die from cancer and suffer from respiratory illnesses. About five years ago, she too was diagnosed with pollution-linked autoimmune hepatitis, with tests showing she had aluminum inside her body. The reason for the community’s decline in health, environmentalists say, is a burgeoning fossil fuel industry right in their b ....

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