Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012.
[Read Article]The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, also called FERC, is involved in deciding where LNG facilities and pipelines will be located. FERC usually meets in Washington, D.C., but representatives came to…
[Read Article]Billions in tax incentives from the Industrial Tax Exemption Program have failed to produce job and income growth in Louisiana, according a new report from independent research firm Ohio River…
[Read Article]A handful of northern St. James Parish residents and environmental groups have asked federal regulators to sanction steel-maker Nucor over its history of pollution, claiming the state’s watchdog won’t take…
[Read Article]Southwest Louisiana has quietly become the nation’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas – much to environmentalists’ dismay – and industry leaders gathered in this city Wednesday to discuss how…
[Read Article]By Pam Folse St. James Parish Council Chairman Alvin “Shark” St. Pierre, Jr. said the Council will consider a request by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic asking the St….
[Read Article]Several organizations and activists held a news conference in Lake Charles Tuesday and demanded a transition to more renewable energy sources, rather than building more liquefied natural gas plants in…
[Read Article]A new, more stringent review of the environmental impacts of a massive proposed plastics plant along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish will likely take more than two years….
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