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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It can’t be understated how important New Orleans was to Gov. John Bel Edwards’ re-election. Orleans Parish voted 90% for the governor on Nov. 16, giving him a 101,000-vote margin…
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The countryside of St. James Parish, an hour west of New Orleans, is a hodgepodge of bayous and sugarcane fields, smokestacks and riotous tangles of steel pipe.
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On a crisp autumn day in Washington last month, Mary Hampton and Robert Taylor entered Cedric Richmond’s office hoping their federal representative would take the time to listen.
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RISE St. James and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade will hold NURDLEFEST 2019 outside the offices of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, 602 North Fifth Street in Baton Rouge, from…
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In a 10-year period marked by a dramatic increase in newly built and planned petrochemical plants in the state, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has seen its budget slashed…
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During a decade of cuts at EPA fueled by rhetoric that environmental responsibility should be shifted from the federal to state level, 30 states cut funding for their own environmental…
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