Health
Three weeks ago we reported on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suing a major industrial operator for persistently polluting in an area of Louisiana known locally as Cancer Alley. Yesterday a collection of groups representing that community launched legal action against St. James Parish for decades of environmental racism and the discriminatory siting of industrial facilities in predominantly Black communities in the Parish.
Advice on improving indoor air quality when cooking has been published by the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE), aimed at occupants, builders, landlords and local councils across the globe. The advice is presented as ten general recommendations and ten, more technical, targeted recommendations.
