Editing Pass Christian, Mississippi (section)

== Economy ==
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=== Manufacturing ===
The Du Pont White Pigment and Mineral Products Plant – now known as the Chemours DeLisle Plant – is located just south of I-10 in DeLisle. The plant is the 2nd largest producer of [[titanium dioxide]] in the world and has been in operation since 1979. The town of Pass Christian is near the plant, directly across the Bay of St. Louis. Some community members also expressed concerns that chemical releases, as reported on EPA's Toxic Release Inventory, from the DuPont plant could have contaminated the community's water and air.<ref>{{cite web |title=Health Consultation Dupont DeLisle Plant (a/k/a DuPont E I De Nemours and Company, Incorporated) Pass Christian, Harrison County, Mississippi |url=https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hac/pha/dupontdelisleplant071404-ms/dupontdelisle071404-ms_pt1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050315030555/http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HAC/pha/DupontDelislePlant071404-MS/DupontDelisle071404-MS_pt1.pdf |archive-date=2005-03-15 |url-status=live |publisher=U. S. Department of Health and Human Services}} {{PD-notice}}</ref> DuPont DeLisle's titanium dioxide plant reported the third highest amount of dioxin-like compounds in EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI). In 2005, the Hurricane Katrina storm surge flooded significant portions of the plant. Unlike other aquatic organisms, blue crabs do not have the ability to metabolize quickly certain dioxin-like compounds [[Polychlorinated dibenzofurans]] that predominate in the coke and ore solids waste stream of the plant.

=== Seafood processing ===
[[File:All these children.jpg|thumb|Children employed as oyster shuckers at Pass Packing Company, 1911.  Photo by [[Lewis Hine]].]]

Seafood production in the region has been severely impacted by large scale fish die-offs. The [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill]], which occurred in the spring and summer of 2010—along with the presence of toxic sediments stirred up by Hurricane Katrina and record amounts of fresh water diverted into the [[Bonnet Carre Spillway]] in Louisiana—have brought seafood production to a standstill. Offshore oyster beds were hit especially hard. Field crews have reported a 50 percent to 65 percent mortality rate in some areas. An even greater mortality rate of 90 percent to 95 percent has been seen in other oyster beds. According to research from The Nature Conservancy, "roughly 13 years ago, Mississippi was harvesting nearly 500,000 sacks of oysters annually ....".