A Louisiana family is taking their fight for environmental justice from the industrial corridor known as “Cancer Alley” to boardrooms and public stages across the country, urging banks and fossil fuel companies to end investments in projects they say are poisoning their community. Roishetta Ozane and her daughter Kamea live at the mouth of Cancer…
In a move aimed at protecting women—particularly Black and Hispanic women—from health risks linked to everyday personal care products, U.S. Representative Shontel Brown (D-OH) has introduced the HER Act (Health and Environmental Research Act). The bill targets the regulation and research of potentially harmful chemicals commonly found in products like hair relaxers, body lotions, deodorants,…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday in a civil rights lawsuit accusing St. James Parish, Louisiana, of implementing discriminatory land-use policies that have disproportionately harmed majority-Black neighborhoods. Plaintiffs Inclusive Louisiana, Mount Triumph Baptist Church, and RISE St. James allege that the parish’s 2014 land-use plan “effectively codified”…