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High court clears way for lawsuit claim St James Parish steered pollution to Black areas
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:51 am
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:51 am
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A lawsuit seeking a moratorium on new industry in St. James Parish and accusing local government of steering polluting plants into Black neighborhoods can proceed after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case.
The parish government had appealed to the nation's highest court after a federal appeals court breathed new life into the case earlier this year.
Filed in 2023 in U.S. District Court in New Orleans, the suit was brought by Mt. Triumph Baptist Church and two environmental groups, Rise St. James and Inclusive Louisiana. They accuse the parish of issuing discriminatory land-use decisions for decades.
So far the legal dispute hasn't been over the merits of the allegations, instead focusing on the right of the plaintiffs to sue and whether the lawsuit was filed in a timely fashion.
U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier threw out the suit early on, finding the claims were brought too late or by plaintiffs who didn't have the "standing" to sue.
But a three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Barbier in April.
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Astha Sharma Pokharel, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing Mt. Triumph and Inclusive Louisiana, said that "clears the way for us to show to a federal court how the parish has been inflicting dangerous, cancer-causing facilities on Black communities in violation of the constitution, resulting in this public health emergency."
Clara Potter, a supervising attorney with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, added that the Supreme Court affirmed "the correctness" of the 5th Circuit's ruling.
"Our clients deserve to have their day in court to demonstrate that St. James Parish's pattern and practice of land use decisions is harming their community and the environment," said Potter, whose clinic is representing Rise St. James.
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Parish and industry representatives have in the past cited the economic development, jobs and tax revenue such plants bring while denying any discrimination in the process.
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1- Has anyone ever considered that these companies usually look for relatively inexpensive land with access to a major navigable waterway?
2- The State of Louisiana needs to stop appropriating tax dollars to supplement the Tulane Environmental Law clinic.
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Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:55 am to ragincajun03
It’s not cancer alley when controlled for obesity and demographics
Posted on 10/23/25 at 9:11 am to ragincajun03
These people are some of the most nearsighted dumb people on the planet. I've done some work in the past with several government agencies and I was surprised at the amount of money that these plants and facilities pump back into the community. Let's just keep telling them to go screw themselves while they build industry in other parts of the country.
Go look and see who the largest taxpayers into the parish budget are. I am 100% certain it's not the Mt. Triumph Baptist Church.
Go look and see who the largest taxpayers into the parish budget are. I am 100% certain it's not the Mt. Triumph Baptist Church.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 10:02 am to Monday
YCI (now Koch methanol) bought the old saint James high school for 10.1 million dollars, 250,000 over appraised value.
The parish then built a new state of the art campus plus an entire new football field/facility, baseball complex, etc.
Currently I’m always seeing Koch donating stuff to the community/parish. But these new industries are doing sooooo much harm to the people in the area.
The reason the industries are trying to come into this communities that are black populated is because:
1. Land is limited along the Mississippi River. Every time a new industry opens, it is less and less land available. They can only build this facilities from Baton Rouge going down the river because the channel isn’t deep enough past Baton Rouge for the big vessels.
2. Majority of the east side of the river is already developed. It’s only the west side that is available
3. Most of the people that live in this rural land are people who live on family land or people who ancestors worked on the farms that never moved away. It is not heavily populated, it might be “mostly” black neighborhoods because they are the only ones that really never moved away. It’s not anyone’s fault but their own.
If you are so worried about your health and “cancer alley” then move some else. Instead of living in cancer alley go live in Nola where bullets fly like butterflies
The parish then built a new state of the art campus plus an entire new football field/facility, baseball complex, etc.
Currently I’m always seeing Koch donating stuff to the community/parish. But these new industries are doing sooooo much harm to the people in the area.
The reason the industries are trying to come into this communities that are black populated is because:
1. Land is limited along the Mississippi River. Every time a new industry opens, it is less and less land available. They can only build this facilities from Baton Rouge going down the river because the channel isn’t deep enough past Baton Rouge for the big vessels.
2. Majority of the east side of the river is already developed. It’s only the west side that is available
3. Most of the people that live in this rural land are people who live on family land or people who ancestors worked on the farms that never moved away. It is not heavily populated, it might be “mostly” black neighborhoods because they are the only ones that really never moved away. It’s not anyone’s fault but their own.
If you are so worried about your health and “cancer alley” then move some else. Instead of living in cancer alley go live in Nola where bullets fly like butterflies
Posted on 10/23/25 at 10:14 am to ragincajun03
Erin Brokavich 2: Racism Boogaloo
Posted on 10/23/25 at 10:26 am to ragincajun03
If we have to avoid black, poverty riddled areas when considering construction of new plants, that will eliminate Louisiana entirely. This entire state is one big black poverty ridden area. There is literally no where you can go that some poor black person can't claim is their current or "traditional" land.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 11:25 am to ragincajun03
This is good, now they can lose on the merits and we can get precedent to shut future bullshite suits down.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 11:33 am to ragincajun03
This is Louisiana. The entire state is a black area
Posted on 10/23/25 at 11:47 am to ragincajun03
case settles
black folks get a small check
lawyers get a BIG check
plant gets built anyway
black folks get a small check
lawyers get a BIG check
plant gets built anyway
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