A lawsuit filed by Mississippi Gulf Coast local governments, representatives of its tourism industry and Mississippi fishers against the Army Corps of Engineers to protect bottlenose dolphins from death or injury caused by openings of the Bonnet Carre Spillway has been thrown out by a federal judge in Gulfport.
Mark Schleifstein
The Environmental Protection Agency has asked a federal judge in New Orleans to restart a stalled lawsuit attempting to force Denka Performance Elastomers to immediately reduce emissions of a chemical that the agency says poses a likely cancer threat to nearby residents in St. John the Baptist Parish.
Hurricane Francine provided a good test of the abilities of the east and west bank levee authorities in the New Orleans area to close hundreds of gates in advance of its surge, officials for both said Friday.
Throughout its short life, Hurricane Francine was a storm that seemed barely able to hold itself together.
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The Environmental Protection Agency took steps this week to get the state Department of Environmental Quality to assure that the Cabot Corporation’s Ville Platte carbon black manufacturing plant meets a 14-year-old deadline for reducing its sulfur dioxide emissions by 95%.
Officials described his departure after five months on the job as unrelated to turmoil at DEQ, saying it was simply an opportunity he wanted to pursue.
First-of-its-kind grant could reduce flooding, rebuild wetlands in this vulnerable part of Louisiana
A first-of-its kind federal grant will be used to reduce flood risk and rebuild lost wetlands in an area of St. Bernard Parish where homeowners have had to file repeated flood insurance claims.