Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both published reports on Thursday detailing how the fossil fuel industry has harmed the health and environment of communities in Texas and Louisiana , and how state and federal regulators have failed to protect them.The Amnesty report, The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry's Toxic Pollution in the USA, focused on the Houston Ship Channel, which has some of the worst air pollution measurements in the U.S.
The HRW report, 'We're Dying Here': The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone, looked at the state's Cancer Alley, an 85-mile zone along the Mississippi that reportedly has the highest concentration of fossil fuel and petrochemical plants in the Western Hemisphere. 'We're dying from inhaling the industries' pollution,' 71-year-old Sharon Lavigne, who lives in the town of Welcome in Louisiana's St.
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