Residents are speaking out against the construction of a carbon dioxide pipeline they say will bring risks right up to their backyards and near community schools.
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A proposed carbon capture pipeline that would run through parts of Livingston Parish is drawing concern from landowners who live along or near the potential route.
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Opponents are wanting state financing officials to block a $900 million tax-exempt bond issue proposal tied to Hyundai’s planned $5.8B steel manufacturing facility in Ascension Parish.
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Well, OK, Louisiana’s oil refineries don’t have accidents every singleday. Just six days a week on average. Actually, to be specific, 6.3 days a week.
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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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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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