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Chalmette’s Troubled Vista

The Chalmette Vista neighborhood outside New Orleans sits on the fence line of an oil refinery. Many former residents
haven’t returned since the floods of Hurricane Katrina. New technology that measures pollution is showing that current Chalmette resident

Two years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the community of Chalmette Vista, outside New Orleans, is struggling to get back on its feet. The Gulf Coast community sits next door to an oil refinery complex and is not only up against problems with levees, land and housing, but also acrid smells and air pollution. Living on Earth’s Ingrid Lobet reports.