"If [Formosa Plastics] emits all the chemicals it proposes in its permit application, it would rank in the top 1% nationwide of major plants in America in terms of the concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals in its vicinity." We need to stop the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality from approving Formosa's permit applications. We cannot allow such extreme environmental racism to happen in our state; we have to #StopFormosa and stop the genocide. Sign the petition at
Monday, November 18, 2019
Saturday, November 16, 2019
benzene standard needs to change
Louisiana’s benzene standard is more than twice as lenient as the Texas
standard, which is over 30 times looser than that of Massachusetts. (States
enforce their standards in different ways.)
Lylla Younes Oct 30 2019 Why Louisiana's Air Quality is going from bad to worse in 3 Charts
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-louisianas-air-quality-is-going-from-bad-to-worse-in-3-charts
Read the full investigation here:
https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse
This article was produced in partnership with The Times-Picayune and The Advocate, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network
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Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Clean Water Act before U S Supreme Court
Washington, D.C. —
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday, Nov. 6, in County of Maui v. Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund, a case that will decide whether the Clean Water Act regulates pollution discharges that “indirectly” enter protected waters, the outcome of which could imperil clean water across the nation. Oral arguments start at 10 AM EST.
The case concerns a Maui wastewater facility that discharges millions of gallons of treated sewage each day into the Pacific Ocean via the groundwater beneath the facility, which has devastated a formerly pristine reef. The County of Maui argues it does not need Clean Water Act permits for such an action because it is not discharging directly into waters protected by the Clean Water Act. However, the Clean Water Act does not require a “direct” injection of wastewater in waters of the U.S. Both the Hawaiʻi District Court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the County’s argument and concluded that the County of Maui is violating the Clean Water Act.
Earthjustice represents four Maui groups — Hawaiʻi Wildlife Fund, Sierra Club-Maui Group, Surfrider Foundation, and West Maui Preservation Association.
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