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Mississippi River Oil Spill Response Inadequate

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

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.

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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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Waste firm loses ruling

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.”

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New Environmental Briefing Book
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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