Calling them “activists” five times in the article “Activists seek to fight plant project in St. James,” published on April 10 comes across as an attempt to discredit and marginalize…
[Read Article]Legal challenges could delay the EPA’s ability to enact the measures, which coincide with Louisiana activists’ fight against projects poised to increase air pollution.
[Read Article]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….
[See More]Environmental activists demonstrated outside U.S. Sen. John Breaux’s Baton Rouge office Friday, claiming the powerful Democrat supports loosening rules on industrial airpollution.
[Read Article]Citing the negative effects of oil refinery pollution on public health and quality of life, environmentalists Friday called on the Bush administration to abandon a proposal they say could weaken…
[Read Article]National environmental leader, Louis Gibbs of the infamous Love Canal contamination case, lead a rally Wednesday of thirty-five national groups and state and local environmental leaders in support of full…
[Read Article]A huge fire, started Thursday after lightning hit a gasoline storage tank at Orion Refining Corp. in Norco, was extinguished 13 hours later with foam, company officials said.
[Read Article]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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