Documents reveal air monitoring detected carcinogens from burning petroleum; residents with respiratory issues file lawsuit.
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On August 22, Ret. Gen. Russell Honore, founder of the environmental alliance of civic and community groups GreenARMY, hosted a town hall at the Old Hackberry Community Center with fishermen,…
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Four days after a chemical storage tank began leaking and ignited, blackening the St. John Parish skies in plumes of smoke, officials say the last of the hot spots have been…
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RISE St. James, a faith-based grass-roots community group, recently learned that graves of enslaved people have been found on the proposed site of Formosa Plastics in St. James Parish, a…
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RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade will hold NURDLEFEST 2019 outside the offices of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, 602 North Fifth Street in Baton Rouge, from…
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During a decade of cuts at EPA fueled by rhetoric that environmental responsibility should be shifted from the federal to state level, 30 states cut funding for their own environmental…
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The Louisiana Bucket Brigade joined the Center for Biological Diversity and hundreds of other advocacy groups in a legal petition filed Tuesday, demanding strict new air pollution standards for plastics…
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The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA) has scheduled activities in Geismar, St. Gabriel and Plaquemines over the weekend as the March Against Death Alley continues. The two-week campaign against petrochemical…
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The Coalition Against Death Alley (CADA) resumes its two-week campaign against petrochemical pollution and environmental injustice Wednesday, Oct. 23 with a march to the proposed site of the Formosa Plastics…
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