GORDON RUSSELL| GRUSSELL@THEADVOCATE.COM The city of New Orleans and the operators of a New Orleans East landfill that opened after Hurricane Katrina and quickly became the region’s busiest dump have agreed to pay $8 million to settle a long-running lawsuit with a group of people who actually own the property on which the landfill sits. The settlement agreement — [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
By AMY WOLD awold@theadvocate.com A lawsuit filed Thursday challenging federal approval of the use of some BP oil spill money to help build a convention center in Alabama shouldn’t impact Louisiana’s projects included in the same funding package. “Those projects are severable, and each one stands on its own or falls on its own as the case may be,” [...]
By Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com on October 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, updated October 24, 2014 at 5:29 PM [caption id="attachment_857" align="alignleft" width="285"] Gov. Robert Bentley joins state and local leaders in Gulf Shores on May 14, 2013 to sign the bill authorizing construction of the Gulf State Park Convention Center with NRDA funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil [...]
Posted: Aug 04, 2014 8:18 PM CDT Updated: Aug 05, 2014 9:28 AM CDT By Caray Grace WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - You could say, Mississippi Power and the Sierra Club have called a truce. The power company and the environmental group announced a settlement Monday, in their six year battle over the [...]
