“God Told Me To Fight”—Inside the Battle to Stop Another Petrochemical Plant in “Cancer Alley”
Mother Jones illustration; Alejandro Davila Fragoso/Earthjustice Sharon Lavigne has lived all of her sixty-seven years in St. James Parish, Louisiana. She can tell you about a time when the fig and pecan trees in her neighborhood produced plenty to eat and to sell, and when her grandfather caught fish and shrimp in the Mississippi River.…