Save Lake Maurepas

 

We ask you to sign this petition by the Lake Maurepas Preservation Society to protect the lake from industrial intrusion by carbon capture! The petition asks Governor Jon Bel Edwards and the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources to halt the current activity in Lake Maurepas and surrounding wetlands, place permanent moratorium on new CO2 wells and CO2 pipelines, and require an  Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for any industrial activity in Lake Maurepas and the surrounding wetlands. We believe that Lake Maurepas deserves the same protections as Lake Pontchartrain to which it is directly connected.

EPA's outdated water discharge standards

 “People say we need the jobs and the products (refineries) make.” “That’s true. But we don’t need the pollution. They can do better.”  -- John Beard, founder of the Port Arthur Community Action Network, a group working to clean Sabine Lake and other waterways along the Texas-Louisiana border. 

“The EPA’s failure to act has exposed public waterways to a witches’ brew of refinery contaminants,” the study by the Environmental Integrity Project found.

PBF Energy's refinery "near New Orleans ranked 8th, 9th and 10th for releases of nitrogen, a nutrient that feeds algal blooms and is the main contributor to the Gulf of Mexico’s low-oxygen ‘dead zone'."

Louisiana has 8 of the worst water-polluting refineries in the country, study says Heavy metals, nitrogen and ammonia are spilling from oil refineries, tainting the Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico

by Tristan Baurick 

EPA needs to update particulate matter standards

 

Environmental Defense Fund advocacy for public health and stronger EPA standards. 
 Submit public comments today.

Stronger soot standards save lives.

Soot, officially known as particle pollution, is a dangerous and deadly pollutant produced by power plants, vehicle tailpipes and industrial sources. Studies have found that soot causes between 85,000 to 200,000 deaths each year.

That’s why we need the EPA to set stronger standards that slash emissions, protect our air, advance environmental justice and safeguard our health.

It’s time for EPA to set the strongest science-based soot standards to protect our air, advance environmental justice and protect our health. Submit a public comment and urge EPA to to update critical public health protections from soot!

The current set of standards for soot pollution are dangerously outdated, and are insufficient to protect the health of our environment and communities. EPA took an important step toward addressing the problem in a recent proposal, but we urge EPA to strengthen the level of protection in the final standards.

Send public comments to the EPA in support for stronger science-based standards — soot emissions reaching levels no higher than 8 micrograms per cubic meter annually, and 25 micrograms per cubic meter daily — to ensure cleaner air for everyone. Strengthening our current annual national soot standard of 12 micrograms per cubic meter to 8 micrograms per cubic meter would save 19,600 lives each year.

Exposure to, and inhalation of, soot is linked to a variety of heart and lung diseases, in addition to reduced lung development in children, higher rates of asthma, bronchitis, heart disease, cancer and early death.

Updating these decade old standards consistent with the health science will help protect our most vulnerable, including children, seniors and people with chronic illness. These groups are particularly susceptible to the impacts of soot inhalation and are more likely to suffer increased mortality rates, hospitalizations and visits to the ER.

Impacts like these are particularly felt in communities of color and low-income communities, who are more likely to live in areas co-located with sources of this deadly pollutant. But stronger federal standards could change this, shrinking disparities and ensuring cleaner air for everyone. 

Submit public comments urging EPA to finalize the strongest possible soot standards soon. There is no time to waste.

https://www.edf.org/

PBF Energy fire

 PBF Energy's Chalmette refinery fire Saturday January 21 2023 reportedly was contained and extinguished quickly. There were no reports of injury. Nearby residents question why the refinery alarms were not sounded to alert the community.  

PBF Energy's Chalmette plant fire January 21 2023 Photo Credit @nickreimann

Save Monkey Island

 

Public Comments to Dept Natural Resources

Calcasieu Pass 2 LNG Terminal

There's an island at the end of the Calcasieu River in Louisiana called Monkey Island.

https://www.facebook.com/james.hiatt.50/videos/676552000845227

This CP2 LNG Terminal wants to dredge and cut half of the island to make a ship berth.

They also want to destroy over 1700 acres of wetlands to put yet another unneeded gas export terminal at the coast. They want to build directly next to residents homes.

Cameron Parish, LA doesn't have industrial/residential zoning, and as such the Police Jury has disregarded the residents who live next to this proposed terminal. How would you feel if they built a massive, loud, and polluting terminal in your backyard? How would you feel if they dredged and disturbed your fishing grounds, destroying your ability to make money and your way of life?

If you love Cameron Parish, oysters & shrimp, the people and the wildlife, then please let the Department of Natural Resources know how yet another terminal at the mouth of the River makes you feel:

www.sc.org/cp2lng

Do it today: The deadline is Friday for public comments.

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Learn more about reducing port pollution

 Announcing IRA Clean Ports Funding Listening Sessions

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) provides EPA with $3 billion to fund zero-emission port equipment and technology and to help ports develop climate action plans to reduce air pollutants at U.S. ports.* This new funding program will build on EPA’s Ports Initiative that the Agency established to ensure that our nation’s ports, a critical part of our infrastructure and supply chain, help address public health and environmental impacts on surrounding communities.

EPA wants to hear from you on how to build the Clean Ports funding program in the IRA! EPA is hosting two listening sessions on:

• November 9, 2022, 1:00-3:00 PM ET - Register here for the Nov 9 listening session
• December 6, 2022, 1:00-3:00 PM ET -  Register here for Dec 6 listening session

 

The format of these sessions will be the same. Please attend one or both. These sessions will begin with a brief overview of the legislation and conclude with an interactive listening session. We encourage all to attend, whether you work at a port, work with near-port communities, or simply are interested in helping ports transition to zero-emissions. Please come prepared to share your feedback on the program, including:

1. What types of zero-emission port technologies or related planning support do you see as most critical for delivering emissions reductions? 
2. What do you see as the biggest hurdles to transitioning to zero-emission port equipment?
3. How do you see this program complementing other available funding programs (e.g., at EPA, other federal or state programs) that can support efforts to reduce emissions at ports?
4. How would you like to see funding for zero-emission port technology, related planning and permitting, and development of climate action plans work together? Should the funding opportunities be sequenced or combined?
5. How can we help ensure this program addresses concerns of near-port communities and advances environmental justice?

 

Spanish interpretation and live captioning will be available. If you require special accommodations, including live interpretation into a language other than English or Spanish, please contact cleanports@epa.gov one week prior to the event to make arrangements.

 

If you are unable to attend, you may also submit suggestions about program implementation to cleanports@epa.gov.

Information about the IRA Clean Ports funding listening sessions can be found on the EPA Ports Initiative website. 

 

To learn about other EPA IRA funding and listening sessions, visit:  https://www.epa.gov/inflation-reduction-act

 

*To view legislative text enabling the IRA Clean Ports funding program, see Sec. 60102. Grants To Reduce Air Pollution at Ports on pp.247-248 of the PDF version of the enrolled bill.

St Bernard, our roots run deep

 

Documentary Isleños, a Root of America

This incredible adventure began two hundred years ago with the arrival of 2,500 Canaries in Louisiana to defend the territories of the Spanish Crown against the English and has continued to the present day where we find the Canarian traditions, speech, gastronomy and idiosyncrasies present in a community, proud of their origins and in a constant struggle not to succumb to oblivion

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