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 state judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order requested earlier this week that will allow residents to conduct a prayer service on Juneteenth at a grave site on…
[Read Article]Nola.com: St. James residents seek permission to hold Juneteenth ceremony at possible slave cemetery
Attorneys for a group of St. James Parish residents are seeking a temporary restraining order that would grant them access to a historic cemetery on the parish’s west bank where…
[Read Article]Environmental activists and several members of Congress are warning that temporary easing of federal and state environmental regulations in response to coronavirus-related staffing problems at petrochemical plants could result in…
[Read Article]Work on a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex proposed for St. James Parish has been put on hold until mid April to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and…
[Read Article]Community activists in St. James Parish, Louisiana, are demanding land permits for a $9.4 billion plastics facility be revoked after archaeologists may have discovered the project is scheduled to be…
[Read Article]On February 24th, 2020, RISE member Beverly Alexander represented by Tulane Environmental Law Clinic submitted this Petition in Intervention in the lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for…
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