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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Candidates to succeed Cedric Richmond in a solidly Democratic seat in Saturday’s special election have been obliged to address the toxic effects of the chemical industry in Cancer Alley
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Plans for a major petrochemicals complex by plastics group Formosa to be situated in St. James Parish, Louisiana are being called into question by IEEFA. The project makes very little…
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The Biden administration’s 60 day suspension on gas leasing and drilling permits on u.s lands and waters is expected to end soon. Oil workers still fear the worst. “Without oil…
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Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.), authors of the landmark Environmental Justice for All Act, wrote to President Biden today urging him to revoke Army…
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A group of United Nations Human Rights experts has raised “serious concerns” about the continued industrialization of the region of Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley,” calling the permitted development of…
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A coalition of environmental justice groups in Louisiana is calling on the Biden administration to cancel permits for a controversial plastics plant because of the potential impact on local community…
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