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.
[Read Article]Formosa Plastics insists it will respect, protect site where it’s proposed a $9 billion complex.
[Read Article]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…
[Read Article]“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…
[See More]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…
[See More]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…
[See More]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…
[See More]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,…
[See More]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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