Christopher Zumski Finke wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Christopher is a journalist living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Follow him on Twitter at @christopherzf.
That stretch of roughly 85 miles, widely known as "Cancer Alley," is home to dozens of refineries and chemical plants and to many predominantly Black communities.
Judge sets a February 2027 deadline for the agency to name communities breathing unhealthy fine-particle pollution, a step advocates say opens the path to cleaner air for tens of millions.