Louisiana’s Rabbit Island, eroding home to brown pelicans, gets $15.6 million facelift The first is the rebuilding of Rabbit Island near St Charles. “The lone brown pelican colony in southwest Louisiana sits on an island that, like the vast majority
“The New Orleans area has earned an unwelcome financial distinction during the coronavirus pandemic: more homeowners here are at risk of losing their homes due to unpaid mortgages than in any other major American city.” So begins an article in
Spurring a lot of letters and emails to the City Council and with charges that the opponents over stated the benefit of refusing to give this tax break, the New Orleans City Council voted to reject the request by Folger
The magnitude of the layered implications of the traumatic events of January 6, 2021 will most certainly be analyzed for decades to come. The questions of who, why and how will be processed and filtered through many different leading to
The Formosa Chemical Plant cleared a hurdle securing the right to the land they want to build the $9.4 billion dollar plant. The land is located in a poor and rural section of St James Parish and has been the
Three members of our steering committee wrote letters to The Advocate in response to the newspaper’s editorial, “Welcome new investment in Louisiana’s petrochemical industry” (published Dec 22, 2020). The newspaper did not publish any of the letters, but you can
The Advocate has published an editorial under the headline: Welcome new investment in Louisiana’s petrochemical industry. This editorial supports the Mitsubishi Plant in Ascension Parish and the Exxon plant in Baton Rouge. Citing only financial reasons, they tout the increase
Two New Orleans area environmental activists associated with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade were cleared of all charges by the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney’s office a year after the event. Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, in December 2019 after
Pastor Manning, chair of the Greater New Orleans Interfaith Climate Coalition gave a press conference December 15th at Broadmoor Community Church, where he defended those with little or no voice in matters that impact them. Mitsubishi Chemical Company wants to
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