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A large fire at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit upย the sky for miles and continued until dawn. The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed thatย airย monit...
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams.ย Originally published onย Common Dreamsย underย CCย BY-SAย 3.0ย US. Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadi...
This report was produced as part of ivohโ€™s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporatio...
Mounting concerns over pollution, public health, and the expansion of the petrochemical industry came to a head when two activists were detained in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the last d...
Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley....
On August 7, after Geraldine Mayhoโ€™s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks. The tanks ar...
Byย Tara Lohan, The Revelator.ย Originally posted onย The Revelator. More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildli...
While most of Louisiana was spared Barryโ€™s wrath last week, Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, was not. A storm surge swept over the...

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A large fire at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge oil refinery late on February 11 lit upย the sky for miles and continued until dawn. The night of the fire, ExxonMobil representatives claimed thatย airย monit...
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By Julia Conley, Common Dreams.ย Originally published onย Common Dreamsย underย CCย BY-SAย 3.0ย US. Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadi...
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This report was produced as part of ivohโ€™s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporatio...
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Mounting concerns over pollution, public health, and the expansion of the petrochemical industry came to a head when two activists were detained in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 30, the last d...
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Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley....
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On August 7, after Geraldine Mayhoโ€™s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks. The tanks ar...
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Byย Tara Lohan, The Revelator.ย Originally posted onย The Revelator. More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildli...
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While most of Louisiana was spared Barryโ€™s wrath last week, Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, was not. A storm surge swept over the...