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Cancer Alley  

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  • The land known to the Louisiana environmental justice movement as Cancer Alley follows the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Otherwise known as the chemical corridor, this area is home to facilities producing gasoline, fertilizers, plastics, and numerous other petrochemical products. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Cancer Alley]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-NMGCV4WN-K

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