The Times-Picayune and The Advocate have been honored with a prestigious award from the Society of Environmental Journalists for the newspaper’s series “Polluter’s Paradise,” published last year with the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica.
The series won the SEJ’s Kevin Carmody Award for Outstanding ...
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2019: deadliest for environmental activists
Last year, 212 environmental activists and land defenders were murdered globally, making 2019 the most deadly year for people resisting extractive industries or protecting endangered species, according to Global Witness’ latest annual report. Some of the killings are perpetrated by government ...
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Seafloor damage from BP spill vastly underestimated
After BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010, Paul Montagna was given the job of rushing into the blackened seas to find out how much harm the nation’s biggest oil disaster was doing to the creatures on the sea bottom — the tiny, barely understood and rarely seen organisms that ...
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5 myths about lawsuits
Suing is supposedly as American as apple pie. The right to a jury trial in lawsuits is enshrined in the Seventh Amendment. And the portrayal of civil suits is central to American popular culture, from John Grisham’s novels to Judge Judy Sheindlin’s reality TV courtroom. But what people learn from ...
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Plugging Louisiana’s ‘orphaned’ wells could boost industry, cut emissions
A federally funded stimulus program aimed at plugging the growing number of “orphan” oil and gas wells could greatly reduce pollution while giving a much-needed boost to the state’s ailing oil industry, a new report says.
As Congress considers a new stimulus package of several trillion dollars to ...
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Texas Petrochemical Facilities Get A Pass On Chemical Leak Monitoring
Since March, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has received more than 150 requests to waive environmental regulations from companies that say they can't comply because of the pandemic, state records show.
Requests came from major oil and gas companies, like ExxonMobil, Marathon ...
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Fracking boom ends, but environmental impact remains
Throughout the mid-2000s, the controversial fracking boom in the United States upended the global energy industry. America went from one of the world's largest importers of foreign oil to the world’s largest producer of natural gas and crude oil over the course of just one decade. The supposed ...
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Louisiana testing for mercury in fish is in peril
If there was a particularly bad time for Louisiana to stop testing waterways for toxic fish, it would be now.
Fishing is booming amid the coronavirus pandemic, with stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines inspiring Louisianans to take up rods and reels in numbers not seen in nearly a ...
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Parkinson’s risk in Louisiana linked to herbicides and a pesticide
A new study of individuals treated for Parkinson’s disease in Louisiana found a clear correlation between the disease and the use of two types of herbicide and one pesticide in rural areas dominated by forestry, woodlands and pastures.
The study also found that Parkinson’s disease has become less ...
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Dalcour, Louisiana Environmental Lawyer and Toxic Exposure Law Firm
How can a Louisiana environmental lawyer be of assistance to offshore workers and property owners in Dalcour, Louisiana?
Dalcour, Louisiana residents and the thriving chemical and oil industries, along with the industrial manufacturing facilities in the region have a love /hate relationship, as ...
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