'People are dying horrible deaths': the Louisiana town where cancer haunts the streets – video
by Tom Silverstone, Jamiles Lartey, Oliver Laughland, from Environment | The Guardian on (#4EJ1N)
Residents of the town on the banks of the Mississippi River have watched as family members and neighbors have been lost to cancer. Official figures show the risk of cancer from toxic air is 50 times higher in Reserve than the national average. Feeling neglected by politicians, they are fighting back against the chemical plant has been emitting chloroprene into the air for half a century
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