Baton Rouge, Louisiana - A June 14th release of Naphtha – a mixture of flammable liquid hydrocarbon – from ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Chemical Plant is under investigation for being severely under-reported by the corporation.
Joshua Pelletier, Gulf Coast Fund Community Renewal and Ecological Health. While Hurricane Isaac will likely make landfall as only a Category One storm, it may cause extensive harm for one unprecedented reason: large quantities of crude oil and dispersants from the 2010 BP oil disaster remain in the Gulf of Mexico.
By the Louisiana Environmental Action Network. Health Concerns have gone unaddressed for too long. Detoxification program providing first sign of real solutions.
For the past two and a half weeks, floodwaters from the swollen Mississippi River have been diverted into the Atchafalaya River and into communities in Louisiana's "Cajun Country" to the south of Baton Rouge and southwest of New Orleans. The Louisiana Environmental Action Network and award winning chemist Dr. Subra have been tracking the impacts of the flooding. Here is Dr.
More than half of the Mississippi's swollen waters are beginning to flood Louisiana's Cajun Country and the Atchafalaya Basin. Today, floodwaters diverted from the Mississippi River are expected to reach Morgan City, Louisiana (population 12,000). This flooding comes after the Army Corps of Engineers' decision last Saturday (May 14th) to open the M
Secret industry study cites “significant risks” of cancer for people who regularly eat fish from Gulf waters. By Stuart Smith and Mary Lee Orr. More details at: http://oilspillaction.com/
More bad news for Gulf Coast residents: A “confidential study” by the American Petroleum Institute concludes that radium in drilling wastewater dumped off the coast of Louisiana poses “potentially significant risks” of cancer for people who regularly eat fish from those waters.
While Americans frantically dash through crowded strip malls, Paul and Michael Orr jump into their 17-foot Boston Whaler ready to hunt for a different kind of merchandise—the kind that grows in the Gulf of Mexico. They are searching for samples of seafood and sediment located in the oil damaged bayous of Louisiana. And what they have found so far may lead to important revelations about potential contamination along the entire Gulf coast.
Mental Health Crisis Looms as Jobs Disappear; Toxic Dispersant Still Being Used: Unsafe Seafood Threatens Commercial Fishing and Human Health; Dead Wildlife Washing Ashore
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - A June 14th release of Naphtha – a mixture of flammable liquid hydrocarbon – from ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge Chemical Plant is under investigation for being severely under-reported by the corporation.
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For the past two and a half weeks, floodwaters from the swollen Mississippi River have been diverted into the Atchafalaya River and into communities in Louisiana's "Cajun Country" to the south of Baton Rouge and southwest of New Orleans. The Louisiana Environmental Action Network and award winning chemist Dr. Subra have been tracking the impacts of the flooding. Here is Dr.
More than half of the Mississippi's swollen waters are beginning to flood Louisiana's Cajun Country and the Atchafalaya Basin. Today, floodwaters diverted from the Mississippi River are expected to reach Morgan City, Louisiana (population 12,000). This flooding comes after the Army Corps of Engineers' decision last Saturday (May 14th) to open the M 
