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State Legislation Would Make Louisiana a Fossil Fuel Sanctuary State Todd Litman James Brasuell James Brasuell Richard Dion View Jobs See a full list of jobs in planning and related fields: urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, development, engineering, and more. View all jobs Post a Job Research thousands of planners, designers, architects, developers, and other professionals and academics who a...

Skip to the main content of the page Air Toxics Ten Most Emitted EPA Toxic Release Inventory Chemicals in Oregon in 2018 Oregon Facilities and 2018 TRI Data DEQ analyzed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys 2018 Toxics Release Inventory data of estimated toxic chemical emissions to identify the ten most emitted chemicals in Oregon in 2018 and the facilities that are the largest sources of those emissions. TRI is a mandatory EPA reporting program that includes emission estimates from m...

UMass Amherst Political Economy Research Institute Launches New Tool to Track Air Pollution at Every U.S. School Interactive web-based tool tracks industrial toxic air pollution at each K-12 and higher-education institution in the United States April 20, 2021 AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today unveiled a new interactive, web-based tool for tracking industrial t...

Related Company:  Vermont Business Magazine Four New England facilities have reported publicly on their use of certain chemicals, creating a safer environment for the public, as a result of investigations and enforcement actions taken by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). All four facilities quickly corrected their non-reporting when notified of their oversight. The St Albans Creamery was among them. Companies and facilities are required to report annually on their use of certain...

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DeSmog Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a statement on March 2 raising concerns about the further industrialization of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” This largely Black-populated stretch of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge is lined with more than a hundred refineries and petrochemical plants. The experts said additional petrochemical development in this region, which U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) d...

Louisville super-polluting chemical plant emits not 1, but 2 potent greenhouse gases By Phil McKenna and James Bruggers © James Bruggers/Inside Climate News The Chemours chemical plant in Louisville is the nations largest emitter of the climate super-pollutant HFC-23, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Chemours Louisville Works emits a chemical feedstock and a separate gas byproduct that do more damage to the climate than 750,000 p...

But one committee has been missing in action this year. The House Environmental Affairs Committee has not met a single time. Not because it didnt have any legislation assigned to it. Thirteen bills were filed, many dealing with weighty topics.  But since the deadline to hear bills from the House has now passed, all of them died without any consideration. And while its common for bills to die in committee — most do — its unusual for a committee not to meet at all.  Critics say it amount...

The global chemical industry entered the year with announcements for new facilities and sustainability-related initiatives as companies continued to counter headwinds created by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Chemical players’ continued investments offers hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Powder & Bulk Solids editors selected these posts to provide our audience with an overview of some of the most interesting chemical industry-related developments that were reported in the ...

Air Quality Regulators in “Cancer Alley” Have Fallen Dangerously Behind ProPublica 1/29/2021 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article was produced in partnership with The Times-Picayune and The Advocate, which was a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network in 2019. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality needs to do a better job of identifying industrial pollu...