Calling them “activists” five times in the article “Activists seek to fight plant project in St. James,” published on April 10 comes across as an attempt to discredit and marginalize…
[Read Article]Legal challenges could delay the EPA’s ability to enact the measures, which coincide with Louisiana activists’ fight against projects poised to increase air pollution.
[Read Article]A retired special education teacher from Louisiana who led a successful grassroots campaign to stop construction of a toxic plastics plant in America’s Cancer Alley has won the 2021 Goldman prize for…
[Read Article]Sharon Lavigne, a retired special needs teacher in St. James Parish and the co-founder of the faith based environmental justice group RISE St. James has been named the 2021 North American winner…
[Read Article]Orleans Parish’s Holy Cross School, St. James Parish’s burial sites and Lincoln Parish’s World War II internment camp are a few of Louisiana’s most historically significant, vulnerable sites, according to…
[Read Article]Advocates working in St. James Parish, La., are urging the parish council to reject a land use permit for a petrochemical facility based on new evidence.
[Read Article]In 2019, Formosa Plastics received land-use approval from the St. James Parish Council. During the process of getting that approval, the company lacked transparency, withholding information about the burial sites…
[Read Article]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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