Louisiana’s petroleum industry profits from exploiting historic inequalities, showing how slavery laid the groundwork for environmental racism. Sharon Lavigne was teaching a special-education class when
One of our main duties as Catholics is to care for God’s creation, the natural world he made for us. It isn’t an optional dictate,
In Louisiana, Formosa Plastics Group plans a $9.4 billion manufacturing complex in a largely Black community The Fifth District of Louisiana’s St. James Parish was
SAINT JAMES, La. — A St. James woman has become a local David and Goliath story as she works tirelessly to save her community from
United Nations observers said this week that further industrialization in the Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is a form of “environmental racism”
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the wetlands permit for the $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex proposed in St.
Environmental Groups opposing Formosa locating and building a $9.4 Billion plastic making facility in St. James Parish recently launched a national advertising campaign calls on
A new, community-based activist group in St. James Parish last week launched a massive, nationwide marketing campaign, including a powerful television advertisement, aimed at blocking
Formosa Plastic Group’s plan to build a $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex in Louisiana has suffered notable setbacks after federal and state permits for the
A new, community-based activist group in St. James Parish last week launched a massive, nationwide marketing campaign, including a powerful television advertisement, aimed at blocking
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on last Wednesday announced through a court filing in federal court in Washington its plans to suspend its permit
In St. James Parish, Louisiana, residents face some of the highest cancer risks in the country due to air pollution from the nearby 85-mile industrial
Plastics factory will not only contribute to pollution in Louisiana town of Gramercy, but will also be a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions Gail
Population numbers have been dropping in St. James. Some people say they don’t want to live in an area surrounded by industry, like Burton Lane.
In St. James Parish, Louisiana, a Taiwanese industrial giant seems likely to be granted a permit to build a billion-dollar plastics plant. Its proposed emissions
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One of the most polluted regions of the country is being overrun by a new glut of oil and gas facilities, including one that will
