cancer alley

One notorious example is the "Cancer Alley" region of Louisiana.

Norco is a part of what is known as "Cancer Alley".

A. Years ago, New Jersey got the name "cancer alley" because of what was believed to be a very high cancer rate.

My daddy's rich, made a fortune burnin' trash down Cancer Alley.

He exposed the dangers of "Cancer Alley", a term used to refer to Louisiana's petrochemical corridor.

Locations in this area with clusters of cancer patients have been covered by the media, leading to the "Cancer Alley" moniker.

"Cancer Alley Rap"

River Road, known to tourists for its antebellum plantation houses, is known to medical researchers and the public as Cancer Alley.

Cancer Alley (in Louisiana)

Cancer Alley: Myth or Fact?

At the same time, the death rate from cancer in the area dubbed cancer alley was lower than the rest of Louisiana, as well as the national average.

Cancer alley is the 107 mile stretch along the Mississippi river that runs between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

Cancer Alley, LA: Approximately 25% of the nations chemical industry and an alarmingly high cancer rate is located on the 150 mile stretch.

This area known as cancer alley is often cited as one of the most toxic areas in the country with residents claiming a host of ailments and health conditions.

By 1999, bucket brigades had spread throughout the cancer alley of Louisiana, leading to the formation of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

The union placed questions on billboards near the plant asking, for example, "Is BASF the Gateway to Cancer Alley?

I would think twice before spending my precious downtime at a resort called Cancer Alley, despite the pleasure it would bring to send out postcards from such a place.

Four generations of Richard's family have lived in the Old Diamond neighborhood of Norco, Louisiana, located within the area known as "Cancer Alley".

"Cancer Alley doesn't exist anymore, but the perception lingers," said Dr. Michael Greenberg, professor of public health and a cancer epidemiologist at Rutgers University.

As a prime example, they say New Jersey and its residents have long suffered from the state's reputation as "Cancer Alley" even though statistics have not supported that branding for decades.

Residents of Louisiana's Cancer Alley and Sumter County, Alabama (home of the largest hazardous waste landfill in the country), don't need scientists to tell them toxic pollution is harmful.

To the Editor: As a former organizer in the "cancer alley" of Lake Charles, La., I know all too well our nation's legacy of environmental injustice, as described by Bob Herbert.

In 1987, some residents in the tiny community of St. Gabriel, Louisiana called Jacobs Drive, the street on which they lived, "cancer alley" because of fifteen cancer cases in a two-block stretch.

Along "cancer alley," an indigenous term for a stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans where chemical companies line the shores, the river has long since become a vast science project for environmentalists and polluters alike.

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