Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alex Wagner talks with Rachel Maddow about her reporting on residents of a stretch of Louisiana called "Cancer Alley" who are ...

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For disadvantaged Black residents of the most heavily polluted region in America, racial redistricting is a life-or-death ...

When it comes to clean air, Pittsburgh is a success story. Now, other regions of the country — particularly the infamous Cancer Alley in Louisiana — are looking to build upon their example, news ...

Robert Taylor Jr. lives just a couple blocks away from Denka Performance Elastomers in Reserve, Louisiana. The facility produces a chemical called neoprene polychloroprene, used in products such as ...

Millions of deaths every year are the result of air pollution, according to the World Health Organization. It’s tied to health conditions like lung disease, stroke, and cancer. In one part of ...

Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the ...

On the banks of the lower Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana, on sprawling tracts of land that break up the vast wetlands, hulking petrochemical complexes light the sky day and night.