Plastic manufacturers have received $9 billion in subsidies for new or bigger facilities since 2012.
[Read Article]The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, also called FERC, is involved in deciding where LNG facilities and pipelines will be located. FERC usually meets in Washington, D.C., but representatives came to…
[Read Article]Billions in tax incentives from the Industrial Tax Exemption Program have failed to produce job and income growth in Louisiana, according a new report from independent research firm Ohio River…
[Read Article]Word last week that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would push for reduced emissions of cancer-causing ethylene oxide comes as a welcome development, here in pollution-plagued Louisiana.
[Read Article]RISE St. James organizer Gail LeBoeuf takes La. Chemical Association head Greg Bowser to task in this letter to the editor, published in the Nov. 7 edition of the News…
[Read Article]The Louisiana Bucket Brigade notes with serious concern the disaster at Dow Chemical’s plant outside Plaquemines on Sunday, Nov. 3. This explosion comes amidst a proposed onslaught of new petrochemical…
[Read Article]Mounting concerns over pollution, public health, and the expansion of the petrochemical industry came to a head when two activists were detained in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the…
[Read Article]A New Orleans pastor was arrested by Baton Rouge police during chemical plant protest at a downtown office building in Baton Rouge.
[Read Article]Sharon Lavigne knows some 30 people who have died in and around her tiny parish of St. James, Louisiana, in just the past five years.
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