Sugar plantations, Chemical Plants, COVID-19
The chemical plants in Cancer Alley are built where there once were sugar plantations. Descendants of enslaved communities still live nearby.
Combo Disaster and Environmental Injustice
Join us for the Disaster STS Network’s Fall 2021 virtual tour of Louisiana's Cancer Alley, a corridor of chemical plants along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with shockin
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Vincanne Adams is a professor at UCSF School of Medicine. She has her PhD and experience in anthropology. Taslim Van Hattum is the maternal and child health portfolio director at The Louisiana Public Health Institute. Diana English is a Clinical Assistant Professor and specializes in OB/GYN and gynecologic oncology.
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Medicare as a whole is either loved or hated by most people, and this is just one component of the policy as a whole. It is usually regarded in a positive light, since medicare generally treats both patients and providers well.
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They have been criticized for slow response to the Fukushima disaster, and by having an official stance as "pro-nuclear energy/usage" they are prone to protests by groups that oppose those views. Some criticism also comes from the fact that member states are not required to follow all nuclear safety guidelines.