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Activists Document 144 Pipeline Accidents in 2016 — in Louisiana Alone
A new pipeline battle is shaping up in the United States — this time in Louisiana.
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Louisiana’s Oil and Gas Industry Continues Growing Along the Coast It’s Helping Shrink
The Louisiana coast loses a football field's worth of land every 38 minutes.
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New Orleans Water Protectors Show Solidarity With Standing Rock
The New Orleans demonstration called on Obama to deny Energy Transfer Partners permission to complete the project.
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Oil Industry Has More Than 30 Accidents a Week in and Off the Coast of Louisiana
A coalition of groups calling for a moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico released research on accidents in the oil industry.
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Louisiana’s Tea Party Congressmen Seek Flood Aid — After They Rejected Sandy Relief
Whether or not the state's Republican-led delegation is successful in obtaining funds after the November election remains to be seen.
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The Time for Direct Action on Climate Change Is Now
When we are old, what will we wish we had done?
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Environmental Concerns — and Anger — Grow in Month After Thousand-Year Flood Strikes Louisiana
Environmental and public health concerns are mounting as the waters recede.
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Study Finds Greenhouse Gases Doubled the Chances of Louisiana’s Flooding Rains
A new study finds that human-caused climate change doubled the chances of the torrential rains that caused deadly flooding in LA.
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Flood-Ravaged Gulf Coast Residents Ask President Obama to Cancel Federal Offshore Drilling Lease Auction
Activists delivered a petition protesting the leasing of more of the Gulf of Mexico for oll and gas drilling.
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Day After Obama Tours Louisiana Flood Damage, Government Holds Massive Gulf Oil and Gas Lease Auction
Four environmental activists were arrested in New Orleans protesting a lease sale of up to 24 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for oil and gas development.