The American Petroleum Institute’s list of requests to the incoming Trump administration would remove many of the available federal tools to rein in deadly global warming.
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Formosa Plastics insists it will respect, protect site where it’s proposed a $9 billion complex.
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New research from an environmental advocacy group seeking to identify some of those buried at the site of a proposed plastics plant along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish…
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“I had no intention of being an activist,” Sharon Lavigne, a Black Catholic from St. James Parish, Louisiana, said of her battle to keep plastics factories out of her neighborhood….
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WALLACE — Retired Lt. General Russel L. Honoré believes the first rule of patriotism is to vote in a democracy. He said the second most important responsibility citizens have is…
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I moved to Louisiana in 2008 to assist with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and I am writing with urgency to demand that we stop the Formosa Plastics project from being…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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