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Giants Can Fall: Victory in St. James Parish against Formosa Plastics

St James is a rural parish (county) in Southeast Louisiana that sits on both banks of the mighty Mississippi River. The parish is located in the 85-mile stretch between Baton Rouge and New Orleans known as “Cancer Alley” because it’s home to more than a hundred industrial facilities and some of the most toxic air …

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Update on Pearl River One Lake project Part 1: Next Steps, FOIA Silence, and Tight-Lipped Agencies

One Lake Update Summer 2021 Blog Part 1:After three years of waiting, a completed draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) should be returned to the Army Secretary at the Pentagon in September for his review and a decison. The non-federal sponsors of the One Lake project have been quiet about the draft’s progress and have rebuffed Freedom of Information Act requests.

Disappointments and small wins: the 2020 FL Legislature

An update on the 2021 Florida Legislature

If I had to describe the recently-completed session of the Florida Legislature, I would sum it up as preemption and more preemption, steps forward on climate adaptation and the Feds rescue Florida. Oh—and more kicking the can down the road on the issue of stopping climate change. Let’s take a look. Preemption legislation is that …

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Reverend Joseph with Rise St. James

The Louisiana Senate buddies up with Taiwan in Bid for Plastics Mega Complex with SCR20

On April 20th the Louisiana Senate President signed SCR20, a resolution in support of the state’s commerce relationship with Taiwan. The resolution explicitly named the Taiwanese corporation Formosa and its planned facility in St James parish, lauding the development as an investment in the state that would represent “quality jobs” for the region. Formosa’s St …

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Taylor Energy: We’ve got the Receipts, now Kill the Wells

For over 16 years, Taylor Energy has leaked crude oil into Mississippi Canyon Block 20, threatening sargassum, dolphins, and sea turtles with a surface sheen which had extended tens of miles daily.  Before Skytruth and other organizations like HealthyGulf, Southwings, LEAN, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and Waterkeepers in the Gulf Monitoring Consortium stepped up their review …

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Great.com interviews Healthy Gulf about working with local communities to protect the Gulf of Mexico

Emil Ekvardt from Great.com interviewed Healthy Gulf as part of their ‘Great.com Talks With…’ podcast. This series is an antidote to negative news stories that aims to shed light on organizations and experts whose work is making a positive impact on the world. The Waters We Love Will Waste Away  The Gulf of Mexico is …

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