Mother Jones: ENVIRONMENT AUGUST 20, 2019 “God Told Me to Fight”—Inside the Battle to Stop Another Petrochemical Plant in “Cancer Alley”
Sharon Lavigne has lived all of her 67 years in St. James Parish, Louisiana. She can tell you about a time when the fig and pecan trees in her neighborhood produced plenty to eat and sell, and when her grandfather caught fish and shrimp in the Mississippi River. The land and the water surrounding it wasn’t always poison.