Tag: Louisiana
Breaking: Louisiana’s Bayou Bridge pipeline is one permit closer to reality...
“It's no surprise to us that the LDNR is issuing the permit, rubber stamping is business as usual in Louisiana.”
While one Louisiana town’s lead-tainted water system is replaced, dozens of...
Federal help available to states for upgrading water systems is a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed across the country.
Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy pushes natural gas as climate solution at...
Senator Cassidy assures his consituents there will be oversight, but how can he when he is sorely out of touch?
What do Louisiana pipeline explosion and Dakota Access pipeline have in...
Aging pipelines are seen as a major issue that could create catastrophes.
Clash over the Bayou Bridge pipeline ratchets up after Louisiana pipeline...
Both sides drew their battle lines on the Bayou Bridge pipeline deeper in the sand at the second permit hearing.
Bayou Bridge resistance: The pipeline fight heads to the south
Opponents of the pipeline say it could wreck the region's fragile ecology, damaging the basin and destroying Louisiana’s multi-million dollar crawfish industry.
Louisiana’s Tea Party Congressmen Seek Flood Aid – After they Rejected...
In 2013, when Scalise and Cassidy were members of the House, both men voted against the $50 billion aid package for New York following Superstorm Sandy.
Donald Trump in the Bayou
The Tea Party, a Sinkhole in Louisiana, and the Contradictions of American Political Life
Climate Change and the 1,000-Year Flood in Baton Rouge: When Will...
There is growing grass-roots activism directly confronting the extraction and transport of fossil fuels in addition to raising awareness of climate change.
Trump Tours Flood-Ravaged Louisiana But Thinks Climate Change Is A Hoax
He talked to volunteers and victims, signed autographs, and left.
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why guns?
From personal power to autocracy in Donald Trump's America
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire
As Polyphemus falls to the aikido of seeming weaklings, Trump underestimates top experts, battling Democrats, anti-oligarchy citizens and committed activists promoting prosperity for the many, even (yikes!) sharing the wealth.