Anyone familiar with the stretch of Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans knows it as “Cancer Alley”: a string of industries including petrochemical plants. The people who live along this alley are mostly poor and African-American, and many of them have suffered illnesses. Host Steve Curwood talks with the Sierra Club’s Darryl Malek-Wiley about the area’s toxic hotspots.
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