The Louisiana environmental activist who coined the term “Cancer Alley” to describe the row of industrial and petro-chemical plants that line the Mississippi, looks ahead to the future of New Orleans.
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.