Louisiana Bucket Brigade Responds to President Biden’s Visit To New Orleans on Cancer Moonshot, Calls to Stop Federal Permits for Expansions and New Facilities on Cancer Alley The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is welcoming President Biden to Cancer Alley with a digital billboard. The Louisiana Bucket Brigade released the following statement on the eve of President […]
The 4th of July has always represented many things to many people. As we celebrated, reflecting on the holiday’s history and its evolving significance in our nation was important. Holidays like this have developed multiple meanings, from American liberation to slavery liberation. In addition to the historical and cultural implications, these celebrations also presented a […]
Emergency responders are on the scene of a large fire and chemical release at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in St. John the Baptist Parish. According to parish officials, there was a release of naptha, a flammable liquid hydrocarbon found in crude oil. The fire started in a storage tank at the refinery, and so far is contained to refinery grounds.
During ESSENCE Fest, five Black female environmental justice activists responded to the EPA's decision to drop it's civil rights investigation into Louisiana's Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Health.
In 2018 Sharon Lavigne was just an every-day special education teacher at St. James High School who was tired of the foul odors in her St. James Parish neighborhood when she decided to make the leap to environmental justice advocate. When my daughter told me that a $1.2 billion plant might be built two miles […]
After decades of inaction on - and in fact encouragement of - petrochemical development, the St. James Parish Council has now voted to further study the environmental and economic impacts of proposed solar farms in the parish, in spite of the fact that they're generally considered safer and produce cleaner energy than fossil fuels.
Following his Journey to Justice Tour, US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan announced on Wednesday that the agency will begin taking action to bring some environmental justice to Louisiana's more vulnerable communities.
Air pollution is a clear contributing factor to Louisiana's high cancer rates, particularly in marginalized and poorer rural communities such as the area known as "Cancer Alley," says a new study from Tulane University.
Congressman Troy Carter was sworn in on May 11, 2021 to represent Louisianas Second Congressional District. Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly appointed Carter to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Small Business Committee where he will help play a crucial role in responding to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and related natural disasters. One […]
Louisianas coast is eroding. The air in Cancer Alley is toxic. The seafood industry is suffering. The nations first climate refugees had to abandon their homes in Louisiana. No state has been more impacted by climate change. Yet, Louisianas legislature continues to overlook protecting the environment, and in turn, their states residents, as a priority, […]
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