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Westlake, LA - 10/22/2015 - The Phillips 66 refinery as seen from Old Spanish trail.Westlake’s landscape is one of sprawling plants—silver citadels of columns, pipes, smoke stacks and storage tanks. Flare towers rise above the steel spectacle, their fluorescent orange flames licking sky night and day.

How Pollution Killed a Louisiana Town

Heather Rogers

- Nov. 4, 2015

Founded by former slaves in the 1790s, Mossville was one of the first communities of free blacks in the South. After decades fighting pollution, and public health officials, residents are giving up and moving on.

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