” Lots of powerful companies that drive environmental injustice are also backers of the exact same police departments that tyrannize the really communities these business stars pollute,” compose the authors of a recently released examination by the Public Responsibility Effort The report is titled “Nonrenewable fuel source Industry Pollutes Black & Brown Communities While Propping Up Racist Policing” and it’s a damning indictment of business giants who safeguard their astronomical wealth by making use of the susceptible.
From the report:
- Shell, one of the greatest fossil fuel business worldwide and a significant worldwide emitter of carbon contamination. It is constructing a huge ethane cracker plant near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that some feel could begin to turn Appalachia into the next “Cancer Alley”– the label for the New Orleans-to-Baton Rouge passage of Louisiana refineries, where Shell is likewise a significant polluter Cancer Street runs through numerous Black neighborhoods that face exceptionally high rates of pollution and cancer– mostly thought to be triggered by refining and petrochemical operations. Shell is a “ Featured Partner” of the New Orleans Police & Justice Structure and a sponsor of the Houston Cops Department’s Installed Patrol.
Entergy is perhaps the most effective corporate force in Louisiana, with presences on prominent chambers, organisation associations, humanitarian companies, and even charter school advocacy groups across the state. Entergy is a “ Featured Partner” of the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation with top billing on the structure’s sponsors page. The resulting scandal, lawsuit, and city council examination triggered the Entergy New Orleans CEO to action down

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