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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Four days after a chemical storage tank began leaking and ignited, blackening the St. John Parish skies in plumes of smoke, officials say the last of the hot spots have been…
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Days following the fire at Marathon Petroleum, the cause of the incident has not been explained. However, it left Louisiana Bucket Brigade Founder Anne Rolfes angry. She claims industries get…
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Fire burns much of day, sending up huge plume of black smoke visible for miles.
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Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC.N) said on Friday night a fire at its 596,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Garyville, Louisiana refinery was nearly extinguished, but fire suppression work was continuing to prevent flareups.
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“Such events are an all-too-common and exceptionally dangerous reality for those living within fossil fuel and petrochemical ‘sacrifice zones,’” observed one researcher.
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Inspection records and incident investigation reports from state, federal regulators indicate the Marathon Oil Refinery in Garyville has had some serious problems.
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