Residents of Louisiana communities targeted for industrial expansion by Hyundai, CF industries, and other multinationals are reeling from shocking news about two of the companies with plans to develop in their area.
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Volume 2: Pollution or Prosperity?
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A first-of-its-kind ruling by a Louisiana judge has interrupted the state’s rapid buildout of its LNG industry, raising questions over whether regulators will have to look more closely at the facilities’ environmental impacts before granting permits.
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After years of seeking redress from the parish council, St. James Parish residents have now taken their case to federal court. Since September of 2019, the plaintiffs, Inclusive Louisiana, Rise…
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Three weeks ago we reported on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suing a major industrial operator for persistently polluting in an area of Louisiana known locally as Cancer Alley. Yesterday…
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A discrimination lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of Louisiana alleges that the St. James Parish Council steered polluting facilities into Black neighborhoods along the Mississippi River. As a result, Black…
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The St. James Parish government’s long history of locating highly pollutive industrial facilities in areas of the parish home to large concentrations of Black residents constitutes discrimination, and the parish…
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After years of seeking redress from the parish council, St. James Parish residents have now taken their case to federal court. Since September of 2019, the plaintiffs, Inclusive Louisiana, Rise…
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