Amnesty International issued, [The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA](https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/the-cost-of-doing-business-the-petrochemical-industrys-toxic-pollution-in-the-usa/), which shows how people living close to the Houston Ship Channel in south-eastern Texas are breathing toxic substances, linked to a wide range of illnesses, emitted by facilities that routinely flout regulations and release pollutants into the environment. It scrutinizes four plants owned by multinational corporations.
Human Rights Watch published, [“We’re Dying Here”: The Fight For Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone](https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/25/us-louisianas-cancer-alley), which documents the human health crisis in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” resulting from government neglect and environmental pollution, exposing residents to elevated risks of reproductive, maternal and newborn health harms, cancers, and respiratory ailments.
In their reports, the two human rights organizations call for an end to the expansion of the petrochemical industry in these “sacrifice zones” and for a rapid and equitable phase-out of the use of fossil fuels.
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Amnesty International issued, [The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA](https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/the-cost-of-doing-business-the-petrochemical-industrys-toxic-pollution-in-the-usa/), which shows how people living close to the Houston Ship Channel in south-eastern Texas are breathing toxic substances, linked to a wide range of illnesses, emitted by facilities that routinely flout regulations and release pollutants into the environment. It scrutinizes four plants owned by multinational corporations.
Human Rights Watch published, [“We’re Dying Here”: The Fight For Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone](https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/25/us-louisianas-cancer-alley), which documents the human health crisis in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” resulting from government neglect and environmental pollution, exposing residents to elevated risks of reproductive, maternal and newborn health harms, cancers, and respiratory ailments.
In their reports, the two human rights organizations call for an end to the expansion of the petrochemical industry in these “sacrifice zones” and for a rapid and equitable phase-out of the use of fossil fuels.