BATON ROUGE The petrochemical industry has long battled with the river pilots who help steer ships up and down the Mississippi River, mostly over the large fees the pilots charge industrial firms for their services.
Most of the skirmishing has played out in obscure regulatory meetings, with occasional faceoffs in court. Now, for the first time in years, the battle will move to the Louisiana Legislature.
House Bill 650 pushed by the chemical and energy industries and sponsored by Rep. Thomas Pressly, R- Shreveport, would make sweeping changes to the regulatory boards and rules for pilots. It would add industry members to their oversight panel and require the notoriously nepotistic groups to make an annual report of pilots, including a list of how many are related to other pilots or public officials. The bill was scheduled for a committee hearing Monday.
Prosecution dropped against two environmental activists
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) State prosecutors have announced they will not pursue felony charges against two New Orleans environmental activists who left plastic pellets on the doorstep of a chemical industry lobbyist.
Friday’s decision ends a case arising from a December 2019 event in Baton Rouge aimed at raising awareness about plastic pollution. The activists left plastic pellets outside the lobbyist’s home that had been collected from Texas bays near a plastic manufacturing facility owned by Formosa Plastics, The Advocate reported.
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Anne Rolfes, Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, right, uses the front page of The Advocate newspaper for emphasis while speaking against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, as from left, Elaine Taylor, Stephanie Grey with Abita 100, Martial Broussard, and Cherri Foytlin with BOLD Louisiana, watch. Several environmental groups held a press conference Monday Feb. 13, 2017, outside the state department of environmental quality to protest the Bayou Bridge pipeline, especially in light of Thursday night s fire on the pipeline in Paradis, which is owned by Bayou Bridge partner Phillips 66.
ADVOCATE STAFF PHOTO BY BILL FEIG