The oil and gas industry wants to self-report spills and, of course the State legislature gave them what they wanted. This is the fox guarding the hen house and the quesstion is what will the Governor do? Veto or not?
Agency deemed ethylene oxide a likely human carcinogen, but industry says risk is 4,000 times lower
Money covers assessments and cleanup plans in Algiers, Westwego, other areas
Department of Environmental Quality would craft self-audit program for industry use
Environmental Protection Agency is restoring a rule that grants states and Native American tribes authority to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.
n a request filed on Wednesday, the Concerned Citizens of St. John urged the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate cancer risks, recommend air pollution limits and join the group’s calls for the plant to be shut down.
An environmental group is demanding that the EPA take emergency actions to reduce chloroprene emissions at the Denka Performance Elastomer manufacturing plant in LaPlace
EPA to phase out HFCs
A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by David Acosta and 22 other St. John the Baptist Parish residents charging that chloroprene air pollution from the Denka chemical plant in Reserve caused them difficulty breathing, headaches, hair loss, heart
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