The U.S. House of Representatives’ recent passage of energy legislation aimed at expanding mining and fossil fuel production in the U.S. brought a quick rebuke from the Louisiana Bucket Brigade…
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In the United States, a landmark lawsuit filed in a federal court in Louisiana on Tuesday by residents of the state’s “Cancer Alley” declares an “environmental and public health emergency.” It calls…
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Legal experts describe a new environmental justice lawsuit as significant, timely and ambitious. But will conservative judges agree?
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One month before the end of President Barack Obama’s term, he banned all future offshore oil and gas drilling from nearly 120 million acres of land in the Arctic and…
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Not everyone is happy with the proposal to install an underground pipeline through the Atchafalaya Basin.
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Environmental groups in Louisiana are gearing up to fight a proposed 162-mile oil pipeline that would cut through the Atchafalaya Basin, a project involving the same companies building the controversial…
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Nearly 1,000 jobs and billions of dollars are set to head to Plaquemines Parish. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced plans Wednesday for a natural gas plant and terminal that will…
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Year in which Rex Tillerson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, was hired as a production engineer by Exxon, the oil company that would eventually become the Exxon…
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Last month, a large cloud of flammable gas ignited at an ExxonMobil refinery near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Six workers were injured during the 14-minute-long fire, and four of them were…
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