You will hear list of health program and a list of
people who died young from people who live current and former in the Mossville,
Louisiana. Herman Singleton Jr., 51 who lost an uncle and an aunt to cancer
said that she had cancer and her father died from cancer, and many people who
died of cancer in this area. Singleton and many others in SW Louisiana suspect
the 14 chemical plants nearby cause cancer and other disease they said that
destroys the area. For many years, people who live in the Mossville have
protested about their health issue to industry and other state and federal
agencies.With new Environmental Protection Agency administrator outspoken about
what she is going to environmental justice, and looking forward to growing.
Debra Ramirez, 55 who grew up in Mossville and lost her sister of sarcoidosis,
an inflammatory disease. Also, she said that she has hopeful know to make
changes in their area. How safe is the
air you're breathing, and where is it coming from?
The EPA in Mossville held a meeting, they presented
a study designed to see if there the community prepared as good site, to
reserve for the most polluted places in the Unites States. That will be a help
for cleaning up Mossville. Mossville Environmental Action Now, the local
environmental group, has asked government and industry to relocate residents
who want to leave, offer a free health clinic and lower emissions from the
plants. In addition, the local environmental group, Mossville Environmental
Action Now asked the government and industry to help find a new place to leave
the polluted area and give them a free health clinic and lower emissions from
the plants. Dorothy Felix of MEAN said that there are people getting sick,
dying because the chemicals which the reason for why people die. If government
did not take any action it will destroy Mossville. According to the EPA's Toxic
Release Inventory there are thousands of pounds carcinogens such as benzene and
vinyl chloride are throwing near Mossville from the facilities each year.
Chemical boom:
Mossville in and around World War II began the
industrial boom. Vinyl chloride makers, refineries, a coal-fired energy plant
and chemical plants now operate in what was once rural country, rich in
agriculture, fishing and hunting. There is no surprising that industry chose
Mossville, an organization’s community established by African American in 1970s
“ Robert Bullard, author of Dumping in Dixie”. In addition, Bullard said that
what happened is zoned becomes very political, and people with power, with
lawyers who have elected officials that can fight and made choices for
them.With the time, it will make things placed away from them or near where
people live. Bullard said that African Americans without the power, they have
accepted to live near by industry, landfills and hazardous facilities.
Moreover, Bullard said there are more than 79 percent of African Americans live
in dangerous facilities that pose health threats. During the previous
eight years, he says, "Environmental justice was non-existent or
invisible."
Mossville fears:
Residents in Mossville became more worried
promotions from the factors which it affected their health. In 1998 the federal
Agency for Toxin Substances and Disease Registry had tested the blood of 28
residents in Mossville, and they found that the levels of dioxin are three
times than the normal average. They are also released during vinyl chloride
production, at waste incinerators and by wood processing facilities. In 2001
residents were retested for dioxins, in 2006 with similar results the agency
determined that there were not a health risk that residents face it.However,
there are confusing statistic because the parish covers such a large area, more
than 1,000 square miles, and more than 180,000 residents. So, Mossville has
been just a small fraction of that, there are about 375 homes nearby the
chemical factors. People in the Mossville know that they have high levels of
dioxin in their blood, because of that, they allow for them to live there and
exposed this according to Subra, recipient of the MacArthur genius grant in
1999 for her environmental work with communities.After the EPA announced its
Superfund investigation, Felix says she's hopeful for the first time in years
Mossville will be saved. "This is the first time I've had a little hope in
EPA," Felix says.
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