...harms health of so many New Orleans-area residents. They've gathered to talk about the Bucket Brigades, a community organizing effort that's gone global, defending neighborhoods worldwide from industrial pollution. Tour guide Ken Ford has lived in a neighborhood adjacent to ExxonMobil's Chalmette Oil Refinery for nearly 40 years. In that time he's lost a great deal to cancer: neighbors, friends, even his own lung.

The street Ford calls home looks like any other suburban stretch, except that its backdrop is a blazing refinery outlined by a gray blanket of smoke. "The man who lived here just died of cancer." Ford says, gesturing at a one-story house as the bus rolls past. "If you look on this side of the street--the lady who lived there died of cancer. The man who lives...

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