With two terminals already causing pollution, residents say more gas exports will decimate their way of life.
[Read Article]A new report by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade claims two Southwest Louisiana LNG terminals are underreporting operational failures and hazardous pollutant emissions.
[Read Article]A planned expansion in natural gas export facilities could wreck large swaths of the Louisiana coast, a local citizen group warned on Tuesday.
[Read Article]The state Departments of Environmental Quality and Health may be violating federal civil rights laws and regulations by allowing Black people to suffer disproportionate impacts from air pollution in Louisiana’s…
[Read Article]The Environmental Protection Agency is creating a national environmental justice and civil rights office, a move that could result in further action in the part of Louisiana that advocates have…
[Read Article]The Guardian: This nine-year-old was enslaved in the US. Her story could help stop a chemical plant.
The life stories of enslaved people are crucial to a legal battle over a Louisiana petrochemical facility that could triple residents’ exposure to carcinogens
[Read Article]The company, an affiliate of Formosa Plastics, said it intended to move forward with the $9.4 billion complex in St. James Parish despite the ruling.
[Read Article]The environmental justice movement notched important victories in Louisiana this week by blocking two planned petrochemical plants — a move that will prevent huge amounts of greenhouse emissions from entering…
[Read Article]A compromise built into the law ensures oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico for the next decade. Activists say the region has been “sacrificed” to fossil fuels.
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