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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tamar.rogoszinskiThe article's bibliography contains many references including the WHO, the Red Cross, and other organizations, as well as many other experts and professionals in the field.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThe federal government funds OSHA.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThe convention in 1951 was a response to WW2 and the vast amounts of refugees that existed as a result. States involved in the convention and the UN could decide to apply it to refugees not necessarily from WW2, but in 1967, the limits were removed and made it so that it could apply to any refugees, not just those from WW2. It has since been used during major refugee crises in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThis program is located at Tulane University in New Orleans, but has partnership with Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda, and the US.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThe author of this article did a lot of interviews of locals and officials in the area as a means of obtaining information. Research was also drawn from other online sources.
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