Formosa Plastics failed to comply with stipulation provisions to protect identified and potential burial sites on its property. A professional drone operator and volunteer pilots were engaged by the community…
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It’s been almost a year since the inspector general for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged agency officials to take “prompt action” to warn people living near 25 “high-priority” industrial…
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Climate change, fracking, air and water pollution, toxic landfills, the disproportionate burden of pollution on communities of color. There is no paucity of targets for improving our environment, just as…
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Louisiana Water Protectors continue to take action despite looming House Bill 727 that threatens to criminalize their peaceful monitoring along the Bayou Bridge Pipeline route. The bill will be voted…
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WHEN: Tuesday, April 17, 11 am central time WHERE: Report released via phone conference: 512-489-3100, code is 7407529 WHAT: Greenpeace USA and Waterkeeper Alliance have published a ground-breaking report on…
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Today, a broad base of Louisiana advocacy groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, represented by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, argued their petition to intervene in the…
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Newly released data from the federal government’s National Response Center revealed today that petrochemical plants in St. James Parish had 37 accidents in the last 14 months, including multiple releases…
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The historic resistance to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline continued this week as ten trained Water Protectors deployed to six locations along the pipeline route. Most of the deployments were to…
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Louisiana Water Protectors Monitor Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Amidst Flaccid State Oversight
While an injunction has halted construction in the fragile Atchafalaya Basin, work on Energy Transfer Partners’ Bayou Bridge Pipeline continues throughout southern Louisiana.
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