Louisiana communities are left in the dark on toxic air – and industry helped keep it that way

Lawmakers weakened community air monitoring as industry pushed back against greater scrutiny Kimbrelle Kyereh lives just a few hundred feet from the massive chemical storage tanks in St Rose, in south-eastern Louisiana . Oily fumes sometimes drift into her home, bringing headaches, nausea and insomnia. On one such night, she grabbed her son at 3am and fled to an all-night Ihop. In 2023, after years of coping with the noxious odors, Kyereh began collecting air samples in her yard for a local envi