In the Wake of a Toxic Disaster, Roseland Parents Still Struggle to Keep Their Children Safe

This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a young boy in the 1960s, almost every weekend Elbert McGee walked a half-mile with his father through the wooded streets of Roseland, Louisiana, to the Tangipahoa River. There, he learned to swim and fish for bass, crappie, and the…