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      Marathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville, Louisiana

      Thousands Evacuated After Chemical Leak and Massive Fire at 'Cancer Alley' Oil Refinery

      "Such events are an all-too-common and exceptionally dangerous reality for those living within fossil fuel and petrochemical 'sacrifice zones,'" observed one researcher.

      Brett Wilkins
      Aug 25, 2023

      A mandatory evacuation was ordered for thousands of people living within a two-mile radius of a Marathon Petroleum refinery in Louisiana's so-called "Cancer Alley" after a chemical leak and massive fire broke out at a storage tank there on Friday.

      The temporary evacuation order, which Marathon Petroleum called "precautionary," followed a leak of naphtha—a hazardous and highly flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture—and blaze at the refinery in Garyville in St. John the Baptist Parish, located about 45 miles upriver from New Orleans.

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      Vanguard SOS

      'Investing in Climate Chaos': Vanguard Is Now World's Largest Funder of Fossil Fuels

      "If it is bad for the environment, it is bad for retirement," said one environmental campaigner. "Vanguard's retirement schemes are built on investments that jeopardize our future."

      Brett Wilkins
      Apr 20, 2023

      The Vanguard Group, one of the world's largest asset management firms, has surpassed its competitor BlackRock as the planet's leading investor in fossil fuels, according to a report released Thursday.

      The report—published by the German environmental and human rights group Urgewald—shines a spotlight on the 6,500 finance firms whose combined holdings of bonds and shares in oil, gas, and coal companies are valued at $3.07 trillion. That's more than the gross domestic product of any nation on Earth save the U.S., China, Japan, or Germany.

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