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Byย Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Losย Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the โ€œSunshineย Project.โ€ Today, the co...
Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally โ€œtrampledโ€ on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landownersโ€™ permissio...
During a congressional hearing Tuesday,ย a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrainย from theย industry: โ€œPlastic savesย lives.โ€ However,ย for many communities of color living in close proxi...
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
A newย studyย from public health researchers provides the strongest evidence yet that increased exposure to a type of air pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks that's known as fine particulate mat...
Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...

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Byย Jill Johnston, University of Southern California and Lara Cushing, University of California, Losย Angeles Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape...
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More than a half century ago, the oil industry's top lobbyist warned his peers ofย the potentially โ€œcatastrophicย consequencesโ€ ofย burning fossil fuels, consequences that are already starting to unfo...
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With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
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Back in late March, Formosa Plastics broke ground on its $9.4 billion plastics and petrochemical project in St. James, Louisiana, which the company has dubbed the โ€œSunshineย Project.โ€ Today, the co...
on

Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
on

A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally โ€œtrampledโ€ on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landownersโ€™ permissio...
on

During a congressional hearing Tuesday,ย a plastics industry executive echoed a common refrainย from theย industry: โ€œPlastic savesย lives.โ€ However,ย for many communities of color living in close proxi...
on

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.

The nation's oldest and largest gasoline refinery was closed following an explosion and fireball which rocked the majority Black neighborhood of South Philadelphia.
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A newย studyย from public health researchers provides the strongest evidence yet that increased exposure to a type of air pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks that's known as fine particulate mat...
on

Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves o...