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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Click here to read Governor John Bel Edwards’ response to our Request for Public Records.
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A new offshore oil and gas plan from the U.S. Department of the Interior blocks two drilling leases in the Arctic, but allows a new lease in Alaska’s Cook Inlet…
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This was written in response to an invitation from the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife to participate in an oversight hearing on “Our Natural…
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Gulf Coast environmental groups working in the areas at greatest risk from British Petroleum’s catastrophic offshore drilling disaster, joined by Greenpeace USA, are urging President Obama to accept their invitation,…
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Federal Judge Sarah Vance ruled on Friday that ExxonMobil’s Chalmette Refining is guilty of two additional violations of the Clean Air Act and puts the responsibility for preventing further violations…
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In a first of its kind resolution from St. Bernard Parish, the council today voted 7 – 0, unanimously asking “the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the EPA to…
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