Imagine living in Baton Rouge County where 7.8 million pounds of toxic emissions were released in 2013
One by one nearly all of Brunetta Sims’ neighbors bear disappeared. Some bear died of cancer or other mysterious illnesses. “They’re all gone now. Nobody here but me,” Brunetta Sims said from her kitchen table in Standard Heights, an African American neighborhood along the fence line of Exxon Mobil’s colossal Baton Rouge plant and refinery, and the 11th largest oil complex in the world.
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