Residents are speaking out against the construction of a carbon dioxide pipeline they say will bring risks right up to their backyards and near community schools.
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A proposed carbon capture pipeline that would run through parts of Livingston Parish is drawing concern from landowners who live along or near the potential route.
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Opponents are wanting state financing officials to block a $900 million tax-exempt bond issue proposal tied to Hyundai’s planned $5.8B steel manufacturing facility in Ascension Parish.
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This is a story about my return to St. Bernard Parish. Although personal reflections are mingled with the nuts and bolts of the environmental work we set out to do, there is one point that is essential: those who lived in the devastated communities were part of this initial work and MUST be part of the post Katrina work.
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Today, a letter from the St. Bernard Citizens for Environmental Quality and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade notified a refinery in Chalmette, Louisiana ⎯ Exxon Mobil’s Chalmette Refining, L.L.C. ⎯ that it has violated the Clean Air Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. Under federal law, this notice letter provides the refinery with 60 days to resolve the matter cooperatively before the citizens file a lawsuit in federal court.
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American flags flutter above mowed lawns. Freight trains rumble through, whistle, and kids play in back yards. In the evenings, frogs jump under porch lights.
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