HJNO Mar/Apr 2021

HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS I  MAR / APR 2021 23 W Air Quality Regulators in “Cancer Alley” Have Fallen Dangerously Behind A Louisiana Legislative audit found the time it takes the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality to issue penalties to polluters has doubled. Some companies that have been known to violate air quality rules were able to keep at it for years, or even decades. by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune andTheAdvocate P O L L U T E R ' S P A R A D I S E This article was produced in partnership with The Times-Picayune and The Advocate, which was a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network in 2019.