The Environmental Justice Lab

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the United States’ regulatory body who is responsible for keeping us safe from pollution and environmental hazards. So what are they doing about everything...

5 Apr 202326min

This episode is about the health impacts of living in Cancer Alley. While Cancer Alley gets its name from the high rates of cancer (which is 50 times higher than the national average), there are plent...

29 Mar 202327min

This episode is about Cancer Alley. A place where the risk of getting cancer is 50 times higher than the national average. A place that the United Nations refers to as “the textbook definition of envi...

14 Mar 202325min

As we continue our series on “Sacrifice Zones”, we turn our attention to Cancer Alley, a particularly insidious area in Louisiana that is riddled with petrochemical plants and various chemical facilit...

7 Mar 202324min

**This episode is dedicated to Mary Gladell Rice Martin (1932 - 2023). She was an amazing woman, a pillar in her community, and a lifelong BASF employee in South Carolina. Her life was the motivation ...

1 Mar 202327min

Part 3 of our series on sacrifice zones takes a look at ProPublica’s investigative reporting on sacrifice zones. ProPublica’s analysis of five years of modeled EPA data identified more than 1,000 toxi...

14 Feb 202322min

Part 2 of our series on sacrifice zones takes a look at the world stage. There are areas all around the globe where resource extraction, dirty energy production, and horrid waste management practices ...

8 Feb 202324min

Today marks the beginning of a series of episodes about sacrifice zones. Have you heard of them? They are areas all throughout the world that are in close proximity to intense pollution produced by in...

31 Jan 202325min