Formosa Plastics failed to comply with stipulation provisions to protect identified and potential burial sites on its property. A professional drone operator and volunteer pilots were engaged by the community…
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It’s been almost a year since the inspector general for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged agency officials to take “prompt action” to warn people living near 25 “high-priority” industrial…
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Climate change, fracking, air and water pollution, toxic landfills, the disproportionate burden of pollution on communities of color. There is no paucity of targets for improving our environment, just as…
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Word last week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would push for reduced emissions of cancer-causing ethylene oxide comes as a welcome development, here in pollution-plagued Louisiana.
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RISE St. James organizer Gail LeBoeuf takes La. Chemical Association head Greg Bowser to task in this letter to the editor, published in the Nov. 7 edition of the News…
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The Louisiana Bucket Brigade notes with serious concern the disaster at Dow Chemical’s plant outside Plaquemines on Sunday, Nov. 3. This explosion comes amidst a proposed onslaught of new petrochemical…
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Mounting concerns over pollution, public health, and the expansion of the petrochemical industry came to a head when two activists were detained in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the…
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A New Orleans pastor was arrested by Baton Rouge police during chemical plant protest at a downtown office building in Baton Rouge.
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Sharon Lavigne knows some 30 people who have died in and around her tiny parish of St. James, Louisiana, in just the past five years.
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