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Senate Bill 356
Coverage of Senate Bill 356 in the Nexus archive.
- Lawmakers fail to protect Cancer Alley communities through real-time air monitoring
Louisiana lawmakers rejected a bill to implement real-time air monitoring for communities near oil and petrochemical refineries, unlike California which established such a system in 2017. The failure to act leaves Cancer Alley, a region with high cancer rates and pollution from over 200 industrial facilities, without access to critical air quality data.