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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The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and physicians who…
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Word last week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would push for reduced emissions of cancer-causing ethylene oxide comes as a welcome development, here in pollution-plagued Louisiana.
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RISE St. James organizer Gail LeBoeuf takes La. Chemical Association head Greg Bowser to task in this letter to the editor, published in the Nov. 7 edition of the News…
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The Louisiana Bucket Brigade notes with serious concern the disaster at Dow Chemical’s plant outside Plaquemines on Sunday, Nov. 3. This explosion comes amidst a proposed onslaught of new petrochemical…
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Mounting concerns over pollution, public health, and the expansion of the petrochemical industry came to a head when two activists were detained in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the…
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A New Orleans pastor was arrested by Baton Rouge police during chemical plant protest at a downtown office building in Baton Rouge.
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