The Louisiana School Board voted to close Fifth Ward Elementary due to toxic emissions concerns and low enrollment.
A southeast Louisiana school board voted to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school next to a petrochemical ...
On Jan. 27, 2021, newly-elected President Joe Biden announced the Justice40 initiative. The initiative’s goals are ambitious: ...
A Lake Charles woman is proof that the way you look at things can make all the difference in living your best life.
The approach does not center on environmental risks or discrimination, legal and advocacy tools often used in the heavily ...
DuPont Plant is located in Reserve Louisiana, which also happens to be located within what is known as “Cancer Alley,” or the ...
Louisiana, and is within an 85-mile (137-kilometer) stretch of the state known officially as the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor. Colloquially it is called Cancer Alley. Daniel Turner ...
A chemical manufacturing plant west of New Orleans has agreed to pay a $480,000 federal fine and install equipment to stop the release of a cancer-causing chemical from a storage tank and pipe ...