Courtesy of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade Louisiana Bucket
Brigade (LABB) Formed in 2000, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade
(LABB) is an environmental health and justice organization
working with communities that neighbor the state's oil
refineries and chemical plants. The group’s mission is to
support communities' use of grassroots action to create
informed, sustainable neighborhoods free from industrial
pollution. The EPA-approved "bucket" is an air-sampling device
that people who live next to industry—“fenceline” neighbors—use
to document pollution in their neighborhoods. Air is drawn into
a 19-liter bucket and sent to a laboratory for analysis. Though
the bucket is an important part of the assistance the LABB
provides, it is only one part of a toolbox that includes
education, assistance with organizing, media and other types of
sampling (water, soil, seafood). LABB programs include the
Refinery Efficiency Initiative, Environmental Justice Corps,
Fenceline Neighbors Networks and Oil Spill Response. - PRINCIPAL
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