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]The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to review, and possibly update, the standards controlling the release of hazardous air pollutants from oil refineries as part of a consent agreement with…
[Read Article]ExxonMobil must cash advance sellersburg in pay $2.329 million in a settlement, announced by the state’s Dept. of Environ-mental Quality last August and finalized early this month, to address violations…
[Read Article]Well, OK, Louisiana’s oil refineries don’t have accidents every singleday. Just six days a week on average. Actually, to be specific, 6.3 days a week.
[Read Article]If you stand in front of Almena and Sidney Poray’s house in Baton Rouge, La., and look straight down the street, past the other houses and the shade trees, you…
[Read Article]Shirley Bowman noticed the smell after 8 a.m. on June 14, 2012, her 61st birthday. In Baton Rouge, where the petrochemical industry dominates the landscape, foul odors resembling burnt rubber…
[Read Article]By Michael Doughty, Shreveport Times An environmental organization of Ingleside and Werner Park community members is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to penalize Shreveport’s Calumet refinery over alleged environmental…
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