As told in the new feature-length investigative documentary, Company Town, Crossett, Arakanas, a small working class town, has been plagued with disease and pollution by a nearby Koch Industries paper manufacturing plant for generations.
About 5,500 people -- mostly poor, people of color -- are battling a Koch brothers-owned Georgia-Pacific paper and chemical plant that residents commonly refer to as a “cancer cluster.” According to EPA records, it emits over 1.5 million pounds of toxic chemicals each year, including known carcinogens.
As seen in Company Town, a contractor was told to dump poisonous ash in ponds all throughout town. One worker said he had to work at the plant to have any job, forcing him to choose between illness or deeper poverty.
Join Company Town’s filmmakers in demanding the EPA civil rights desk investigate and relocate impacted residents of Crossett. The community impacted by pollution and sickness cannot wait any longer.
Sign this petition to tell the EPA to investigate and relocate the Crossett community that has been made ill by Georgia-Pacific's wastewater and air pollution!
