. >> reporter: dorothy felix and her family have lived in the tiny town of mossville, louisiana for sevenerations, but she fears she will be among the last. she says contaminated air and water is slowly killing the residents. dioxin is a known cars again, felix and others blame the chemical plants for contaminating their community. most of the 500 residents living here are african american. at a townhall residents shared stories of suffering, and accused the chemical plant owners of what they call environmental racism. >> i'm tired of people taking advantage of a small african american community. >> i have seen people die, you know? i'm afraid of that. i don't want to have to sleep in it. i worked in it. but i don't want to have to sleep with a gas mask on. >> reporter: state officials deny the plants pose a health threat, and the state's governor recently approved a plan to allow a chemical giant to build one of the biggest chemical plants in the western hemisphere in mossville. but they say they are not a bad neighbor, in fact it is offering to buy up some but not all of the homes that

. >> dorothy felix and her family have lived in the tiny town of mossville, louisiana, for seven generationsshe fears she will be among the last. she says contaminated air and water is slowly killing residents of mossville? >> the dioxin in the blood levels was he willvated three times that of the united states populations. >> it is a known carcinogen. felix and others blame the more than a dozen other chemical plants their state government has allowed to move in to mossville for contaminating their community. most of the 500 residents are african-american? >> born and raised right here. >> at a town hall, they accused the chemical plant owners of what they call environmental racism. >> people taking advantage of a small african-american community and minority community. why they can't keep our air clean, clean water. >> i have seen people die, you know. i am afraid of that. i don't want to have to sleep in it. i worked in it, but i knew where i was but i had to sleep with a gas mask on. >> state officials deny the plants pose a health threat. even though alleluia government research shows t

. >> reporter: dorothy felix and her town have lived in the tiny town of mossville, louisiana for sevenenerations. but she fears she will be the last. she says contaminated air and water is slowly killing the residence. >> the [ inaudible ] was elevated three times. >> reporter: most of the 500 residents living here are african american. >> born and raced right here in mossville. >> at a townhall drenthzs shared stories of suffering, and accused the owners of what they call environmental racism. >> people taking advantage of a small african american community, why can't they keep our air clean, and clean water. >> i'm tired of seeing people die. i don't want to have to sleep with a gas mask on. >> reporter: state officials deny the plants pose a health threat, the state's governor recently approved a plan to allow the south african petrochemical giant to build one of the biggest chemical plants in the western hemisphere in mossville. it's expected to spew millions of tons of greenhouse gases in to the air. it is offering to buy up some but not all of the homes that will surround the new

. >> reporter: dorothy felix and her family have lived in the tiny town of mossville, louisiana for sevenns, but she fears she will be among the last. she says contaminated air and water is slowly killing the residents. >> the dioxin in the blood level was elevated three times that of the united states population. >> reporter: dioxin is a known carcinogen, they blame the more than a dozen chemical plants the government has allowed to move into mossville. most of the residents here are african american. at a town -- townhall residents shared stories. >> i'm tired of people traching advantage of a small african american community. why they can't keep our air clean and clean water. >> i have seen people die. i don't want to have to sleep in it. i worked in it. i knew i would, but i don't want to have to sleep with a gas mask on. >> reporter: state officials deny that the plants pose a health threat, and the state's governor recently approved a plan to allow the south african metro chemical giant to build one of the biggest chemical plants in the western hemisphere. >> the new plant is expect

. >> dorothy felix and her family have lived in the tiny town for seven generations.he fears she will be among the last. she says contaminated air and water is slowly killing the residents of mossville. >> the blood levels of those residents was elevated three times that of the united states population. >> dioxin is a known cars inogen. felix and others blame more than a dozen chemical plants have allowed into mossville for contaminating their community. most of the 500 residents living here are african-american. >> born and raised. >> at the townhall, residents shared stories of suffering, accused the chemical plant owners of what they call environmental racism you can't have people taking advantage of a small minority community. why can't we have clean water? >> i have seen people die, you know. i am afraid of that. i don't want to have to sleep in it. i knew i would. i would have to sleep with a gas mask on. >> state officials deny they pose a health threat and though they showed there would be rise of toxins in the air. they allowed the south african sassol to bui