Thousands Evacuated After Chemical Leak and Massive Fire at ‘Cancer Alley’ Oil Refinery
![A massive plume of smoke—visible from outer space—billows from a burning storage tank at Marathon Petroleum Thousands Evacuated After Chemical Leak and Massive Fire at ‘Cancer Alley’ Oil Refinery](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/image2023-08-27.jpg)
“Such events are an all-too-common and exceptionally dangerous reality for those living within fossil fuel and petrochemical ‘sacrifice zones,’” observed one researcher. A mandatory evacuation was ordered for thousands of people living within a two-mile radius of a Marathon Petroleum refinery in Louisiana’s so-called “Cancer Alley” after a chemical leak and massive fire broke out […]