Big Oil, Poison Air, and Margie Richard's Fight to Save Her Town
by
Ronnie Greene
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Diamond neighborhood was an all-black enclave in the mostly white town of Norco, Louisiana, aptly named for the New Orleans Refining Co., an industrial processing plant. Margie Eugene Richard was raised in the shadow of a giant chemical plant operated by Shell, and witnessed her neighbors fall...