SAVING CANCER ALLEY: Activists in a polluted stretch of Louisiana continue to fight against new fossil fuel industry developments, despite the pandemic.

• Position: ON THE LINE

Environmental activists are fighting against the expansion of the fossil fuel industry in Louisiana's Cancer Alley, an eighty-five-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge lined with more than 100 fossil fuel industry sites. Sharon Lavigne, a sixty-eight-year-old retired teacher, started the community group RISE St. James, based in the fifth district of St. James Parish, a region with some of the country's highest cancer risks from air pollution.

I have been documenting the work of RISE St...