‘Quit is not in my vocabulary’: After his wife got cancer, this Mississippi man took oil companies to court

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After Marlan Baucum's wife got cancer, he took oil companies to court.

by Julia James, Mississippi Today January 12, 2022 Marlan Baucum of Laurel stands at the edge of his property line discussing his belief that a disposal well not far from his home has contaminated drinking water in the area, and is the cause of his wife's cancer, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. LAUREL — Driving down his curving, wooded street on the edges of Laurel, Marlan Baucum points to each house where a neighbor had cancer.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.

 

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