Historic military building in Bywater awarded $2 million for remodeling
The former Naval Support Activity Complex (NSA) in the Bywater neighborhood is getting a $2 million dollar makeover.
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The former Naval Support Activity Complex (NSA) in the Bywater neighborhood is getting a $2 million dollar makeover.
The Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality on Tuesday visited the source of a recurring
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – As industrial plants have overtaken historic Black communities and burdened neighborhoods with toxic air pollution, environmental
The EPA stepped in to exercise its oversight and evaluate whether LDEQ has granted permits for companies to build and pollute in a way that has caused disproportionate harm to Black communities.
Environmental advocates and residents of the Louisiana chemical corridor known as Cancer Alley have spent decades calling for change in the way industrial activity is regulated there. They were heartened last year by the early findings of an Environmental Protection Agency investigation into Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality. EPA was examining whether permits had been granted for companies to build and pollute in a way that disproportionately hurts Black communities — and the EPA found signs that it had. The EPA and the Louisiana environmental agency spent months negotiati...