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      The Denka neoprene production plant emits chloroprene and other hazardous air pollutants in LaPlace, Louisiana on August 12, 2021.

      Biden Admin Sues Petrochemical Giants Over Deadly Chemical Pollution in Cancer Alley

      "This will have a tremendous impact on our struggle here," said one local activist. "Over the six years we have been fighting this fight we haven't had anything as great as this to happen in terms of getting concrete action on emissions."

      Kenny Stancil
      Mar 01, 2023

      The Biden administration on Tuesday sued two corporations behind a petrochemical plant in Louisiana, arguing that the facility poses "unacceptably high cancer risks" to the low-income and predominantly Black residents of nearby communities and demanding significant cuts in toxic pollution.

      On behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint asserting that carcinogenic chloroprene emissions from Denka Performance Elastomer's neoprene manufacturing activities at the Pontchartrain Works Site in St. John the Baptist Parish "present an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health and welfare."

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      False Match That Led to Arrest Highlights Danger of Facial Recognition

      False Match That Led to Arrest Highlights Danger of Facial Recognition

      "Law enforcement must drop this dangerous technology—we shouldn't have to worry about being falsely arrested because an algorithm gets it wrong," said the ACLU after a Georgia man was misidentified as a purse thief.

      Jessica Corbett
      Jan 03, 2023

      Instead of enjoying a late Thanksgiving meal with his mother in Georgia, Randal Reid spent nearly a week in jail in November after he was falsely identified as a luxury purse thief by Louisiana authorities using facial recognition technology.

      That's according to Monday reporting by NOLA.com, which caught the attention of Fight for the Future, a digital rights group that has long advocated against law enforcement and private entities using such technology, partly because of its shortcomings and the risk of outcomes like this.

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      Rise St. James Cancer Alley DC Funeral March

      Cancer Alley Activists Hold DC Funeral March Asking Biden to Declare Climate Emergency

      "People are dying," pleaded RISE St. James leader Sharon Lavigne outside the White House. "This an emergency. If he will not declare this an emergency, we are going to die."

      Brett Wilkins
      Oct 25, 2022

      Environmental justice activists from Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" on Monday held a funeral procession in Washington, D.C. to remember victims--overwhelmingly Black people--killed by petrochemical industry pollution and to demand that U.S. President Joe Biden declare a climate emergency and do more to stop deadly fossil fuel projects.

      "President Biden, you are drinking clean water, and we are not. You can plant a garden over here; we cannot, the soil is destroyed."

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