Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner

Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor

Steve Lerner

303 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 smell--the "toxic bouquet" of pollution--and a m...

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