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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

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James, with the help of Tulane’s law clinic, fought to protect their constitutional right to protest in Gramercy. The law is on our side,” Lavigne told me. Robert Taylor in a trailer provided by FEMA, in front of his storm-damaged home on February 12, 2022. A few days later, RISE St. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

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As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 After a series of working group meetings on FBMSM in general and warehouses in particular, the SCAQMD released Proposed Rule 2305 in discussion draft form on November 13, 2019.

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Air District Targets Southern California Logistics Industry

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 After a series of working group meetings on FBMSM in general and warehouses in particular, the SCAQMD released Proposed Rule 2305 in discussion draft form on November 13, 2019.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

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A Public Health Watch analysis of TCEQ pollution data shows that between 2019 and 2021, annual readings soared as high as 2.1 The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. Children return home from school in Channelview, Texas.

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As Alarm Over Plastic Grows, Saudis Ramp Up Production in the US

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or SABIC, a chemical manufacturing giant tied to one of the world’s richest royal families, and Exxon Mobil, America’s biggest energy company. By the end of 2019, Aramco would go through with a far more limited IPO, in which 1.5% That amounts to the annual emissions of at least 35 average-sized coal-fired power plants.

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New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals

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In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. And those in power, especially at the state level, need to know.”. But the data from the monitors confirmed her worst fears.