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]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…
[Read More]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…
[Read More]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…
[Read More]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…
[Read More]Given how busy the community group RISE St. James has become in recent months, it may surprise some observers that founder Sharon Lavigne is a relative newcomer to community organizing….
[Read More]Dozens of advocates gathered on New Orleans’ west bank Wednesday, Oct. 16 to begin the Coalition Against Death Alley’s March Against Death Alley. Organizers led marchers from a meeting point at…
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