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Yeah. Get down. Thank you. This is hell.

hell. Okay, doke. The planet's on fire, so yes, this is hell.

And the part of the planets that's on fire, which we will be discussing this morning, is primarily in the southeastern

part of the United States as well as Texas. But it stretches all the way north to places like

Delaware and is really all across the United States.

What they are on fire with is cumulative emissions

from chemical processing facilities,

which are together being linked to cancer, A pro-public investigation last month found that the

combined effects of chemical plants can lead to what are known as cancer alleys,

especially in Texas and Louisiana, that have made nearby communities

and neighborhoods sacrifice zones where residents are far more likely to contract and die from

various cancers. As the journalists at ProPublica discovered

ethylene oxide is the biggest contributor to excess industrial cancer

risk from air pollutants nationwide. Corporations across the United States,

but especially in Texas and Louisiana,

manufacture the colorless, odorless gas

which lingers in the air for months

and is highly mutagenic, meaning it can alter DNA.

In other words, ethylene oxide is a highly toxic

chemical that can lead to lymphoma and breast cancer according to the

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