The planned expansion of a massive liquefied natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana is a beacon for a U.S. energy policy that doubles down on oil and gas exports under…
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Neighbors, both for and against a proposed natural gas facility, had the chance to share their thoughts on the project during a public hearing Tuesday.
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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.
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If you stand in front of Almena and Sidney Poray’s house in Baton Rouge, La., and look straight down the street, past the other houses and the shade trees, you…
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Shirley Bowman noticed the smell after 8 a.m. on June 14, 2012, her 61st birthday. In Baton Rouge, where the petrochemical industry dominates the landscape, foul odors resembling burnt rubber…
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By Michael Doughty, Shreveport Times An environmental organization of Ingleside and Werner Park community members is asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to penalize Shreveport’s Calumet refinery over alleged environmental…
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Air pollution from a huge pipeline and tug boat fire, which raged 30 miles south of New Orleans from Tuesday until it was extinguished on Friday, sickened nearby residents with…
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Safety problems at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge refinery are prevalent throughout the industry and represent a “criminal offense” by the company and others like it, the nation’s largest industrial labor union…
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ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Refinery failed to inspect hundreds of corroded pipes and report several incidents in the last five years, according to an uncensored EPA inspection report recently obtained by…
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