Why is this top Democrat absent from the fight against toxic pollution in Cancer Alley?
(The Guardian United States)

Cedric Richmond has received $128,000 from chemical firmsLocal residents: `It was like he was trying to brush us off´On a crisp autumn day in Washington last month, Mary Hampton and Robert Taylor entered Cedric Richmond´s office hoping their federal representative would take the time to listen.The two had travelled 1,000 miles from Reserve, a town in southern Louisiana where, according to US government science, the risk of cancer is the highest in the country due to airborne toxins emitted by a nearby chemical plant. Hampton and Taylor have lost numerous relatives to the disease over decades, and blame the plant´s emissions of a compound named chloroprene, listed by the US government as a likely carcinogen. Continue reading...