‘Cancer Alley’ Among Worst Areas for Chemical Risks, Groups Say

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Poor Texas and Louisiana communities, many of them Black, have higher-than-average exposures to 15 of 20chemicals that the EPA is analyzing, groups in the two states told the agency.Gulf-area residents from both states are exposed to 77% of the nationwide air, water, and land releases of just oneof those 15 chemicals, a flame retardant, a coalition of seven Texas and Louisiana groups told the agency incomments filed late May and early June.