The American Petroleum Institute’s list of requests to the incoming Trump administration would remove many of the available federal tools to rein in deadly global warming.
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Formosa Plastics insists it will respect, protect site where it’s proposed a $9 billion complex.
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New research from an environmental advocacy group seeking to identify some of those buried at the site of a proposed plastics plant along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish…
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Members of RISE St. James and their supporters continue to rally in opposition to the presence of more petrochemical plants in St. James Parish’s historic African American community. At a…
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Today, more than a dozen environmental advocates are demanding that Louisiana’s oil and gas industry begin the long-overdue process of developing a comprehensive plan for the state to transition away…
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St. James residents today requested that the St. James Parish Council delay the planned approval of the Formosa Plastics facility so that the parish can get more information about Formosa’s…
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Louisiana communities are today highlighting a Formosa Plastics facility near Lavaca Bay, Texas that on Wednesday was fined $121,875 by the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality for polluting the bay…
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Residents of St. James Parish and environmental groups today sought disclosure of public records on the process that designated their community “Residential-Future Industrial” in 2014. [Read the Public Records Request…
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Amidst rumors of payoffs to council members and payment of school board employees’ salaries, RISE St. James and supporting organizations have filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all…
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