Cancer Alley
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Cancer Alley is the regional nickname given to an 184-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River between the Baton Rouge metropolitan area and the Gulf of Mexico, in the River Parishes of Louisi
A mound of oil drums near the Baton Rouge ExxonMobil Refinery along the Mississippi River in December 1972.
Sacrifice zone
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A sacrifice zone or sacrifice area is a geographic area that has been permanently changed by heavy environmental alterations or economic disinvestment, often through locally unwanted land use. Comment
Cancer Alley
…Western Hemisphere. As of 2025, this area accounted for 25% of the petrochemical production in the United States. Environmentalists consider the region a sacrifice zone, which is an area where pollution levels are so significant that they pose considerable dangers to the people who live there, and these people are often…
A sacrifice zone where iron hydroxide precipitate from coal mining has damaged a stream and surrounding area
Pollution at Maracaibo Lake