Healthy Gulf Blog
This week the Supreme Court delivered a decision on West Virginia v. EPA that limited the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gasses.
I kept saying to myself the pumps can’t be working. I live not far from a drainage canal and I saw it overflowing. I felt …
I want to share some big, yet bittersweet, news. After 26 years, I have decided to retire as Executive Director of Healthy Gulf at the …
Healthy Gulf released a report that reveals Hurricane Ida left a trail of oil, gas, and chemical pollution across Southeast Louisiana far beyond what was …
The Southeast United States is the largest sourcing area for the wood pellets used in electric plants in the UK.
By now it is well known that we must transition to renewable energy as quickly as possible in order to avoid the worst impacts of …
April is global Citizen Science month. This April, Healthy Gulf, Cartoscope and Unique Mappers are releasing an international effort to help identify damage from oil …
The effort towards creating a National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Louisiana is being hosted by LSU Sea Grant, and by the National Oceanic and …
An explosion yesterday at the Marathon oil refinery in Southeast Louisiana was a bitter reminder of the day-to-day risks faced by workers in the oil, …
Ironton, an African-American town in Plaquemines Parish, organized over the course of a year and throughout the pandemic. They opposed the construction of an oil …
In 2016, the EPA formally acknowledged what communities long suspected: that ethylene oxide is a cancer causing chemical. Right now the EPA is developing agency …
Recent actions by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the results of the November Miss. Wildlife and Fisheries Commission meeting are both relevant to …