If You Can Smell It, You’re Breathing It — What About What We Can’t?

This is not chemistry class, it’s survival class. When federal enforcement gets rolled back, states fast-track permits, and cities look the other way, the results show up in our lungs, our tap water, our sleep, and our medical bills. The plume doesn’t stop at the fence. It rides wind, trucks, trains, and creeks touching Black, Brown, working-class, rural, coastal, and inland communities alike. From Texas’ quarries, batch plants, refineries, rails, and ports, to Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley,” California’s warehouse belts, and New York’s expressway canyons the playbook is the same. Profit first, people maybe.