Northwest of New Orleans along the banks of the Mississippi River lies one of the world’s biggest concentrations of petrochemical plants, and every year those plants have hundreds of toxic spills, leaks, fires, and explosions. Meanwhile, people living downwind of these facilities have little access to information about toxic plumes that, on any given day, might be drifting through their homes.

The ISP investigates what it's like to live in a place where industrial accidents are so common, a US government report once described it as having a "disaster subculture."

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