"Badly Damaged": Environmental Activist in "Cancer Alley" Documents Oil Spills After Hurricane Ida
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#5P9WX)
As part of our ongoing coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, one of the strongest storms to ever hit the United States, we go to St. James Parish, Louisiana, to speak with Sharon Lavigne, the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, who lives in the heart of Louisiana's Cancer Alley," home to more than 150 petrochemical facilities. She is now documenting oil spills in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida even as her home was badly damaged.