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]At Grand Isle State Park, on a sandy beach popular with sunbathers and anglers, Jace Tunnell pointed to the tide line and its usual scattering of litter: milk jugs, water…
[Read Article]Hello and thank you for letting me present. I made a presentation to the Council in January calling attention to Formosa Plastics’ false assertion that it had reconfigured its site…
[Read Article]September 10th, 2020 Chief Butch Browning, State Fire Marshal Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal 8181 Independence Blvd. Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806 Courtney Phillips, Secretary Louisiana Department of Health P.O….
[Read Article]Most of us might not know what to call the small bits of plastic, but we know what to call it when we see these pieces — pollution. There’s a…
[Read Article]Hazardous emissions from a chlorine plant fire, abruptly shuttered oil and gas refineries and still-to-be assessed plant damage are seeping into the air after Hurricane Laura, regulators say, but some…
[Read Article]It’s been more than two weeks since a cargo ship in New Orleans spilled millions – possibly billions – of tiny plastic pellets into the Mississippi River, but state and…
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