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. […]
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BP OIL SPILL: PHASE II FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
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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 […]
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 […]
NAACP honors Sierra Club at Freedom Fund Banquet
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. Both Miller and Wiygul played instrumental roles in reaching a landmark […]
Order Approving SCP Second Round Distribution
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Lawsuit challenges plans to build Alabama convention center with BP spill money
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 […]
Gulf State Park convention center challenged in lawsuit; Group calls project ‘shocking misuse of restoration funds’
By Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com on October 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, updated October 24, 2014 at 5:29 PM GULF SHORES, Alabama — The Gulf Restoration Network, an environmental group based in New Orleans, has filed a law suit seeking to block the use of $58 million in Deepwater Horizon oil spill recovery funds to […]
Louisiana Has a Wild Plan to Save Itself from Global Warming: Too bad the state is being destroyed from within
By: Nathaniel Rich 1. Noses In response to complaints some years ago about blocked plumbing along New Orleans’ Claiborne Avenue, city workers opened up the sewer main and found a human nose. Following the line down the avenue, popping open manholes and looking inside, they discovered ears, fingers, fingernails, shriveled flaps of skin, viscera. Where […]
Vandenborre shares thoughts on what’s good, bad and ugly about South Louisiana fishing right now
By Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on September 17, 2014 at 11:24 AM, updated September 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM Capt. Dudley Vandenborre is the E.F. Hutton of South Louisiana. When he talks, anglers listen. A standing-room-only crowd gave their full attention Tuesday night to the Jedi Knight of Lake Pontchartrain speckled trout fishing […]