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 the Louisiana Second District. Speaker Nancy Pelosi quickly appointed Carter to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Small Business Committee, where he will play a crucial role in responding to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and related natural disasters. One of […]
Louisiana's coast is eroding. The air in Cancer Alley is toxic. The seafood industry is suffering. The nation's first climate refugees had to abandon their home's in Louisiana. No state has been more impacted by climate change. Yet, Louisiana's legislature continues to overlook protecting the environment, and in turn, their state's residents, as a priority, […]
On Monday, May 10th, youth activists from the New Orleans and Houston Sunrise Movement, a national, youth-led climate justice movement dedicated to fighting the climate crisis and creating millions of good jobs, set off on their "Generation On Fire: Project 400," a 400-mile trek from New Orleans to Houston. The trek represents the displacement from […]
The Environmental Integrity Project, a non-profit watchdog focused on environmental regulation, released a report naming 5 oil refineries in Louisiana as above "action level" for benzene, a Group A carcinogen. The report, titled "Environmental Justice and Refinery Pollution: Benzene Monitoring Around Oil Refineries Showed More Communities at Risk in 2020" explored the relationship between cancer-causing […]
In a March 23rd article, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said that Formosa's new plastic plant being built in "Cancer Alley" in St. James Parish, would not be financially sustainable, writing, "IEEFA finds that the project will begin operations at a time of market oversupply, lower petrochemical prices, strong competition for market […]
In response to a series of letters from the Loyola Law School Human Rights Advocacy Project and members of the Stop Formosa Plastics Coalition including RISE St. James, CIEL, and Healthy Gulf, UN experts on Contemporary Forms of Racism condemned the environmental racism in Cancer Alley, declaring that it "must end." The experts specifically cited the […]
Despite near-continuous development, oil, gas, and other petrochemical companies are not finished building new factories and refineries on the Mississippi.
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