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Pollution Worsens Coronavirus Death Rate, Studies Show

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The industrial plants in the riverside Louisiana city of Port Allen have worried Diana LeBlanc since her children were young. In 1978, an explosion at the nearby Placid oil refinery forced her family to evacuate. “We had to leave in the middle of the night with two babies," said LeBlanc, now 70. “I always had to be on the alert."

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