The U.S. House of Representatives’ recent passage of energy legislation aimed at expanding mining and fossil fuel production in the U.S. brought a quick rebuke from the Louisiana Bucket Brigade…
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In the United States, a landmark lawsuit filed in a federal court in Louisiana on Tuesday by residents of the state’s “Cancer Alley” declares an “environmental and public health emergency.” It calls…
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Legal experts describe a new environmental justice lawsuit as significant, timely and ambitious. But will conservative judges agree?
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“Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Have a History of Spills from Existing Pipelines Energy Transfer Partners and its complex network of subsidiaries and joint ventures owns one of the nation’s…
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SPOTLIGHT ON SPILLS: ST. JAMES PARISH January 1, 2017 to February 25, 2018 The National Response Center is the federal point of contact for oil spills and chemical accidents. During…
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On behalf of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a public records request with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) seeking records related to the…
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Pollution from Shell and IMTT has plagued St Rose for years. In early June, 2014 there was a huge spike in pollution when equipment meant to control emissions from the…
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Louisiana has seventeen oil refineries including some of the largest in the country. Chronic, on-going emissions and large accidents from refineries and chemical plants pollute and endanger all of us,…
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Introduction: On August 28, 2012, Hurricane Isaac made landfall in the United States as a Category 1 hurricane at the mouth of the Mississippi River. In the wake of the…
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