“The chemical plants are really having a ball with this hurricane,” says Sharon Lavigne, a local activist who has been fighting to stop pollution in a highly toxic area of southern Louisiana.
Despite their importance, some foreign teachers have been victimized by the recruiters and by school districts.
To commemorate our 20th anniversary, Living on Earth is digging back into our archives to revisit some of our first shows. This week, we travel down to the lower Mississippi River in Louisiana, an area that over a hundred petrochemical plants, and many African Americans call home.
The 35th Annual National Conference of Black Mayors convenes today in Las Vegas. In honor of the conference, we put together our own roundtable of black mayors to talk about issues they're facing during these tough economic times.
The Louisiana environmental activist who coined the term "Cancer Alley" to describe the row of industrial and petro-chemical plants that line the Mississippi, looks ahead to the future of New Orleans.