Toxic Tour 2025

The Micah 6:8 Mission Toxic Tour 2025 is an immersive and deeply impactful experience that brings participants face-to-face with the environmental realities many Southwest Louisiana residents live with every day. Designed to expose the heavy concentration of polluting industries in our region—often located within feet of homes, churches, and schools—the tour takes riders through fenceline communities in and around Sulphur, Westlake, and Mossville. These areas, historically Black and working-class, have long borne the brunt of chemical exposure, poor air quality, and corporate negligence. By weaving together science, storytelling, and on-the-ground perspectives, the Toxic Tour reveals the human cost of unchecked industrial development.

This year’s tour includes powerful testimonies from local residents, environmental experts, and community advocates who share lived experiences and data about rising cancer rates, asthma in children, contaminated water sources, and the erosion of public trust. Participants also see firsthand the visual contrast between protected industry zones and under-resourced neighborhoods that exist in their shadow. From flaring stacks to chemical tanks, the landscape tells a sobering story—one that is often ignored or minimized in public policy discussions.