The planned expansion of a massive liquefied natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana is a beacon for a U.S. energy policy that doubles down on oil and gas exports under…
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Neighbors, both for and against a proposed natural gas facility, had the chance to share their thoughts on the project during a public hearing Tuesday.
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The American Petroleum Institute’s list of requests to the incoming Trump administration would remove many of the available federal tools to rein in deadly global warming.
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Sharon Lavigne, a retired special needs teacher in St. James Parish and the co-founder of the faith based environmental justice group RISE St. James has been named the 2021 North American winner…
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Orleans Parish’s Holy Cross School, St. James Parish’s burial sites and Lincoln Parish’s World War II internment camp are a few of Louisiana’s most historically significant, vulnerable sites, according to…
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Advocates working in St. James Parish, La., are urging the parish council to reject a land use permit for a petrochemical facility based on new evidence.
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In 2019, Formosa Plastics received land-use approval from the St. James Parish Council. During the process of getting that approval, the company lacked transparency, withholding information about the burial sites…
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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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