Five months ago, Venture Global LNG filed a special request with the federal government to rev up construction of its liquefied natural gas export terminal in Plaquemines Parish.
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The Environmental Protection Agency says the state is violating federal law by allowing manufacturers to release toxic air pollutants in amounts greater than their permits specify during plant startups, shutdowns…
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An environmental group blasted Gov. John Bel Edwards’ trade-focused trip to Asia this week, condemning the Japanese and Korean firms he’s meeting with for their ties to industries blamed by watchdog…
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How Murphy Oil, USA and the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health have downplayed health risks from Murphy’s million gallon oil spill in St. Bernard Parish. In the days following…
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It is hard to get the results of the sampling that they conducted The Louisiana Bucket Brigade had to file a public records request with the Louisiana Department of Environmental…
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Diamond is a neighborhood of four streets in the town of Norco, Louisiana, 40 miles up the Mississippi River from New Orleans. Diamond is in the heart of the region’s…
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As neighborhoods go, the African American community of Diamond is rare. Many of the families of this neighborhood have lived here for generations, since the days before the Civil War….
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Conoco, Condea Vista, and PPG are three of the companies that citizens of Mossville and Calcasieu Parish believe to be significant polluters of the area. Each company employs a public…
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