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...environmental movement its daily, stubborn edge. In Kansas two years ago, a housewife who lived near Wichita's Vulcan Chemical plant and whose family had been beset with health problems handcuffed herself to a chair outside Governor Mike Hayden's office until she could see him. Last year a Louisiana group brought cancer-stricken children to an environmental hearing in Baton Rouge, and protesters of a Conoco Inc. refinery in Ponca City, Okla., set up a tent city on state capitol grounds in 1988. Two weeks ago, in one of the largest settlements of its kind, Conoco offered the families...
...major lobbying forces in state capitals. When her second son was born with a breathing disorder, Marylee Orr roused her Baton Rouge neighborhood and founded Mothers Against Air Pollution to stop a nearby incinerator from releasing toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. Now the 38-year-old housewife heads the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, an umbrella for about 50 local environmental hell raisers, which lobbied successfully last year for the passage of the state's first air- quality law. In New Jersey the social-studies class of teacher Karl Stehle at West Milford High School scored its first environmental victory last...
Residents of Louisiana's "cancer alley" -- the 120-km (75-mile) stretch of the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to New Orleans that is lined with 136 petrochemical plants and refineries -- have learned to endure choking fumes, stunted gardens, contaminated crayfish and abnormally high rates of cancer and other ills. But with help from Janice Dickerson, of the New Orleans-based Gulf Coast Tenants Organization, they are no longer suffering in silence...
...like this," says Louisiana Senator Bennett Johnston, whose state is the nation's second largest sugarcane producer. "I see reform as a job-for- job loss to Latin America. You say I have a vested interest? You're damn right I do." Says a Bush aide: "Fact is, we need the support of Democrats like Bennett, which makes sugar the lowest of low priorities." An honest explanation. And a rotten...
...more damning because Republicans, whose veiled appeals to anti-black prejudice have helped win five out of the last six presidential elections, only recently confronted a similar problem and appeared to deal with it firmly. Last year, after former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke was elected to the Louisiana state legislature as a Republican, G.O.P. Chairman Lee Atwater denounced him and read him out of the party...