Plaquemines Parish Court Overturns Coastal Permit for Coal Terminal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dec. 30, 2014 Contact: Nancy Nusser, nnusser@citizen.org, 410-934-9588 (m) Raleigh Hoke, raleigh@healthygulf.org, 504-525-1528 ext. Robert Wiygul, Robert@waltzerlaw.com; 228 990 1228 Plaquemines Parish Court Overturns Coastal Permit for Coal Terminal State Agency “breached its duty as public trustee” Plaquemines Parish, LA–Community leaders won a major victory against a proposed coal export terminal today when a Plaquemines Parish district [...]

Audit: Vast majority of BP oil spill claims payments are correct

  Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on November 25, 2014 at 6:30 PM, updated November 26, 2014 at 8:10 AM Results of a third-party audit of the oil spill settlement program released Tuesday (Nov. 25) by claims administrator Patrick Juneau show the settlement program has correctly processed 99.5 percent of claims. The [...]

NAACP honors Sierra Club at Freedom Fund Banquet

  [caption id="attachment_899" align="aligncenter" width="233"] Robert Wiygul is honored with the Distinguished Justice Service Award from the Gulfport NAACP.[/caption] Y WESLEY MULLER wmuller@sunherald.com Twitter: WesleyMullerSHNovember 23, 2014 GULFPORT -- The Gulfport NAACP honored two Sierra Club members with Distinguished Justice Service Awards during Sunday night's Freedom Fund Banquet. Honored were Mississippi Sierra Club Director Louie Miller and prominent environmental attorney [...]

Robert Wiygul helps the Sierra Club Deliver a Precedent-Setting Victory for Clean Energy in Mississippi

For six years, Waltzer Wiygul & Garside’s Robert Wiygul has represented the Sierra Club in its challenge to the Mississippi Power Company’s Kemper Project, a multi-billion dollar power plant that will strip mine lignite as a fuel. In 2012, Robert earned the national William O. Douglas Award from the Sierra Club, in part for his tireless work on the case, [...]

Westwego officials up in arms over coal trains plan

  By Paul Purpura, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Westwego's elected officials Monday night continued sounding their alarm over a company's plan to ship coal through the West Jefferson city in uncovered rail cars, to a shipping facility in Plaquemines Parish. The council last month enacted a resolution, expressing its unhappiness over a proposal to roll coal through the city. Now [...]
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