Lawyers for RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sent a letter (available here) to St. James Parish Council members advising them that the 2019 land use approval…
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Read the full letter with footnotes, citations, and sources here. May 12, 2021 St. James Parish Council 5800 Hwy. 44 Convent, LA 70723 By email to: linda.hubbell@stjamesparishla.gov …
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Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.
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Lawyers for RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sent a letter (available here) to St. James Parish Council members advising them that the 2019 land use approval…
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Read the full letter with footnotes, citations, and sources here. May 12, 2021 St. James Parish Council 5800 Hwy. 44 Convent, LA 70723 By email to: linda.hubbell@stjamesparishla.gov …
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Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.
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Anne Rolfes, director of the environmental justice group Louisiana Bucket Brigade, got her start in the environmental justice space working in the Niger Delta, where Shell’s oil spills and excessive flaring—a…
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Thirteen U.S. oil refineries released the cancer-causing chemical benzene in concentrations that exceeded federal limits last year, according to government data published by the green group Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)…
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Washington Post: Huge plastics plant faces calls for environmental justice, stiff economic headwinds
The Fifth District of Louisiana’s St. James Parish was never exactly a bustling community — but it was still a community. Then the local landmarks began to disappear. Woodrow’s grocery…
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