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]Sharon Lavigne knows some 30 people who have died in and around her tiny parish of St. James, Louisiana, in just the past five years.
[Read Article]Over a half-century, Hazel Schexnayder saw her riverside hamlet of St. Gabriel transformed from a collection of old plantations, tin-roofed shacks and verdant cornfields into an industrial juggernaut.
[Read Article]The industrial stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a region known as “Cancer Alley,” is one of the most highly polluted areas in the country….
[Read Article]Two activists were detained Wednesday morning in Baton Rouge after a two-week march from New Orleans to protest a lack of progress in curbing industrial pollution in Louisiana.
[Read Article]Jessica Rosgaard, host of TheLensNOLA.org’s weekly podcast Behind The Lens, reported Friday on Wednesday’s activities in St. James Parish in the March Against Death Alley, including a rousing speech by…
[Read Article]From TheGuardian.com: For the second time in two months the moral revival campaigner and civil rights leader the Rev William Barber has visited an area of toxic pollution in Louisiana…
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