Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Max Brallier Award-Winning Writers: Featuring masterful storytelling

Award-Winning Writers: Featuring masterful storytelling from the pages of The New Yorker

Life kicking your ass

and she learned firsthand why people don’t think ahead—and what can be done to change that

this is an intensely personal subject

The disparity between the protected and the helpless--a challenge to any idea of justice--has never been so blatant

Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Max Brallier Award-Winning Writers: Featuring masterful storytellingAuthor Contributor(s): Lerner, Steve; Bullard, Robert D. Publisher: The MIT Press Date: 2 17 2006 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW The story of how a mixed income minority community in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor fought Shell Oil and won. For years, the residents of Diamond, Louisiana, lived with an inescapable acrid, metallic smellthe "toxic bouquet" of pollutionand a mysterious chemical fog that seeped into their houses. They looked out on the