Steve talks with Richard Kleiner of the Louisiana Chemical Association and Paul Templet, Louisiana’s Secretary for Environmental Quality, about the state’s industrial plants. Though the state has reduced pollution significantly over the past few years, the EPA still ranks it second to Texas as the most polluted state in the nation.
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