The girlhood to jail pipeline: how Louisiana coverage fails Black ladies
She is 16 years previous and already fluent in a language most adults by no means hassle to be taught—the language of invisibility. She walks to the bus cease each morning in her faculty uniform, eyes down, backpack pulled shut,…
Louisiana pipeline explosion exhibits deep risks of LNG buildout for our communities, in Louisiana and past
When a fuel pipeline exploded close to Holly Seashore in Cameron Parish earlier this month, it left one employee injured and despatched an infinite orange fireball and thick clouds of fuel into the air. It additionally provided a blazing warning…
Cameron pipeline blast reveals why native air monitoring is required, environmental group says
This story was initially revealed by the Louisiana Illuminator. A grassroots environmental group says this week’s explosion of a pure fuel pipeline in Cameron Parish is why its neighborhood air monitoring mission must be expanded. The Habitat Restoration Mission has…
Odorless, invisible and lethal: Exxon plans to put carbon pipeline alarmingly near La. residents
This week on Behind The Lens, with little public enter, Exxon obtained native authorities approval to put in a pipeline to hold highly-compressed carbon dioxide in St. James Parish within the space extensively referred to as “Most cancers Alley”. The…
In St. James Parish, Exxon plans to put carbon pipeline alarmingly near houses, companies
London Toussaint, 8, factors to the sugarcane subject simply behind her dwelling. “That’s the place we play at,” she says, “Me and Lyric, my finest buddy.” For kids in rural St. James Parish, Louisiana – which straddles the Mississippi, about…
Oil firm fined report $18 million for defying state orders to cease work on pipeline
Take heed to this text The California Coastal Fee fined an oil firm a report $18 million on Thursday for repeatedly defying orders to cease work on a corroded pipeline in Santa Barbara County that brought on a significant oil…