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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) data shows has some of the country’s highest cancer risks from air pollution, constitutes “enviro...

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 nation's 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 passenger vehicles — far more than the Environmental Protection Agency’s main industrial greenho...

But one committee has been missing in action this year. The House Environmental Affairs Committee has not met a single time. Not because it didn't 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 it's common for bills to die in committee — most do — it's unusual for a committee not to meet at all.  Critics say it amounts to a dereliction of duty in a state that releases more toxic chemicals and pollution per squar...

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 last month. Powder & Bulk Solids editors examined various perspectives and forecasts on the chemica...

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 polluters that don't properly report emission violations, and it should enforce those violations more agg...