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]Groups opposing a South Louisiana Methanol project sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today calling attention to the agency’s failure to obtain critical information about the facility’s possible…
[Read More]This morning, a massive explosion involving Ethylene Dichloride, a flammable carcinogen, erupted at the Westlake Chemical facility in Westlake, Southwest Louisiana. The explosion is still being investigated and its full…
[Read More]Inclusive Louisiana, together with residents of St. James Parish and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, submitted an overfiling petition to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), requesting that the EPA amend a…
[Read More]The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced today it will require a full “environmental impact statement” for the massive petrochemical complex Formosa Plastics proposes to build in St. James Parish,…
[Read More]St. James Parish residents who live within a mile of Nucor Steel are celebrating the company’s withdrawal of its Title V permit application for a major expansion of its Pelletizer…
[Read More]On the first anniversary of a plastic pellet spill in the Mississippi River, local advocates are calling for the Army Corps of Engineers’ suspension of the Formosa Plastics permit to…
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