Lawyers for RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade today sent a letter (available here) to St. James Parish Council members advising them that the 2019 land use approval…
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Read the full letter with footnotes, citations, and sources here. May 12, 2021 St. James Parish Council 5800 Hwy. 44 Convent, LA 70723 By email to: linda.hubbell@stjamesparishla.gov …
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Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism.
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As President Trump visits Louisiana to raise money and tout fossil fuel projects around the state, the petrochemical industry is celebrating unprecedented power at the federal level, with executive orders…
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Dear Members of the St. James Parish Council: On behalf of Ms. Genevieve Butler, Pastor Harry Joseph, Mt. Triumph Baptist Church, RISE St. James, and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade (collectively,…
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“You just get used to the smell, even when it burns your nose,” says Liz Gordon, a Louisiana native who has lived within eyesight of the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery…
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Louisiana industry leaders are praising executive orders signed by the Trump administration Wednesday, which the president says will speed up construction of pipelines and other projects for the production and…
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More than a dozen advocacy groups have formed a new coalition to fight industrial development and pollution along the Mississippi River in south Louisiana.
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Owners of a newly completed south Louisiana pipeline say they expect the transport of crude oil from Lake Charles to St. James to begin Monday.
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