Message 4 Digest Number 339

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Barbara, Huey Long warned of the same thing 60 years ago and all he got for

his troubles was a bullet.

Dennis Verhaagh

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> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 17:05:52 -0500

> From: " Barbara Herskovitz " <bherk@...>

> Subject: Don't Move to Louisiana - Either!

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> The Nation

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> November 8, 1999

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> Cancer Alley, Louisiana : a 100-mile stretch is home to numerous

> industrial

> sites-and many sick people.

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> By Barbara Koeppel

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> Something is rotten in the state of Louisiana. It is the stretch along the

> Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and just south of New Orleans.

> Locals

> call it Cancer Alley. The corridor is home to seven oil refineries and

> somewhere between 175 and 350 heavy industrial plants, depending on how

> you

> count. Together, they produce staggering amounts of waste, much of which

> they treat on-site or spew into the air, land and water. Waste- processing

> companies also set up shop here to handle the industrial overflow. Because

> the laws are laxer in Louisiana than elsewhere, they cart in even more

> waste

> from outside the state to bolster business-a whopping 330 million pounds

> in

> 1993, which dropped to about 52 million pounds in 1995, partly because the

> federal government closed down Marine Shale, one of the state's three

> waste-processing companies.

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