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Mississippi River Oil Spill Response Inadequate |
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Friday, July 25, 2008 New Orleans, LA - Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper
and Atchafalaya Basinkeeper made a special air patrol today to check on
the area of the Mississippi River affected by the oil spilled from the
barge that was hit by a tanker on Wednesday. What was found was not
encouraging. Oil continues to leak from the wreckage of the barge and
there were extensive oil slicks on the river from the wreckage to the
extent of our patrol (near Carlisle).
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Debris-barge plan gets review by state officials |
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Times-Pic July, 15 2008
A proposal by a Plaquemines Parish construction debris
landfill to begin accepting wastes from barges on the Hero
Canal will face a public hearing before state environmental
regulators today.
Industrial Pipe Inc., owner of the facility, was cited
for violating its operating permit by accepting its first
bargeload of debris from a Chicago landfill through the
wrong entrance to the landfill in April, said Tyler Ginn,
director of the state Department of Environmental
Quality's enforcement division.
..."We unloaded a barge directly into the landfill in
April as a way of showing the department how we could safely
do it," he said. "Our records showed we did do it
safely."
However, the proposed change is not sitting well with
residents of the Oakville community, said Corinne Van Dalen,
a supervising attorney with the Tulane Environmental Law
Clinic, which represents the Oakville Community Action Group
and Louisiana Environmental Action Network.
Read the entire article.
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LEAN to sue EPA over BR air quality |
2theAdvocate.com July 11th 2008
“The Baton Rouge area has never met the [Clean Air Act’s] minimum
health protection standard for ozone pollution,” Louisiana
Environmental Action Network, or LEAN, said in a letter to those
agencies.
Officials of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., and Dallas declined to comment on the letter.
“It’s
a notice of intent to sue,” said Dave Bary, a spokesman for EPA’s
regional office in Dallas. “I’m not in a position to comment at this
time.”
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By BOB ANDERSON
Advocate Florida parishes bureau
Published: Jun 21, 2008 - Page: 1B
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled in favor of environmentalists
and against Waste Management Inc. in a case involving Woodside
Landfill’s air discharge permit, but the two sides differ on what the
court’s action means.
The company should not
continue accepting waste at the landfill, now that its air discharge
permit has been vacated, Jill Witkowski, acting director of the Tulane
Environmental Law Clinic, said Friday.
Waste
Management maintains that it may legally operate while the state
reviews an application for a revised permit, which has been submitted.
“We
believe it should close down,” said Marylee Orr of the Louisiana
Environmental Action Network. “We’re anxious to see what DEQ is going
to do.”
Read the whole article here.
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New Environmental Briefing Book |
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Protecting Louisiana
An Environmental Briefing Book
A coalition of environmental groups, including LEAN, has put together an Environmental Briefing Book which highlights some of the environmental challenges that Louisiana faces and opportunities we as Louisianians have to better ourselves by addressing those issues.
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