Stolthaven Chemical Facility in Plaquemines Parish reports a large release of multiple chemicals during Hurricane Isaac, and then reports that it isn’t sure how much, if any, was released.
Rail cars and storage tanks at Stolthaven Chemical Facility moved out of place by hurricane Isaac.… 
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Hazardous Chemicals Released from Stolthaven Facility During Hurricane Isaac
Stolthaven Chemical Facility in Plaquemines Parish reports a large release of multiple chemicals during Hurricane Isaac, and then reports that it isn’t sure how much, if any, was released.
Rail cars and storage tanks at Stolthaven Chemical Facility moved out of place by hurricane Isaac.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: ETHYLBENZENE, Hurricane Isaac, Material Quantity, NRC, Stolthaven Chemical Facility
Environmental Impacts From Hurricane Isaac
Despite the fact that we live in an area that gets hit by hurricanes every few years, and has for untold millennia, Louisiana Industry is consistently unable or unwilling to take the steps necessary to prevent environmental impacts due to hurricanes.… UTMB and LEAN work to assist communities after Hurricane Isaac
University of Texas, Medical Branch and the Louisiana Environmental Action Network work to provide direct relief for communities impacted by Hurricane Isaac
Louisiana Environmental Action Network’s(LEAN) collaboration with the University of Texas, Medical Branch(UTMB) in the post Oil Spill GC-HARMS initiative has helped to strengthen and expand our long and fruitful partnership.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Environmental Action Network, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Isaac, Hurricane Isaac University of Texas, LEAN, UTMB
GCHARMS At Work
This latest video by Jason Berry shows John Sullivan of the The University of Texas and Bryan Parras of Texas Environmental Justices Advocacy Services hard at work gathering samples of shrimp and oysters with the help of Louisiana fisherman George Barisich for the GCHARMS study.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: GCHARMS, Jason Berry, John Sullivan, Louisiana, The University of Texas
Overflight of Leaking Taylor Wells
On April 10, 2012, Gulf Monitoring Consortium (GMC) conducted an overflight of the Lower Mississippi River Delta looking for oil spills including the ongoing leak at the Taylor Well site. Paul Orr the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper flew with a SouthWings pilot over the Mississippi River Delta south of New Orleans out to the site of the ongoing crude oil leak from the Taylor wells around 11 miles south of South Pass of the Mississippi River.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: crude oil, GMC, Gulf Monitoring Consortium, Gulf of Mexico, Mississippi River Delta, South Pass
Waterkeeper Organizations File Suit to Plug Taylor Energy’s Ongoing 7 Year Gulf Oil Spill
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — Louisiana Environmental Action Network and its Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper program along with Waterkeeper Alliance and several Gulf Coast Waterkeeper organizations filed suit in Federal Court today, February 2, 2012, against Taylor Energy Co., LLC under the citizen suit provisions of the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation Recovery Act, for ongoing violations stemming from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has continued to flow for seven years.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Gulf of Mexico, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, Taylor Oil, Waterkeeper Alliance
Gulf Monitoring Consortium Update Report
On April 19, 2011, SkyTruth, SouthWings, and Waterkeeper Alliance launched the Gulf Monitoring Consortium: an innovative partnership that is systematically monitoring oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico with satellite images and mapping, aerial reconnaissance and photography, and on-the-water observation and sampling.… We support EPA’s Decision To Add The Gulf "Dead Zone" To The Impaired Waters List
The Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone along the Louisiana coast, commonly called the “Dead Zone” has been a well documented problem for decades now. However, the state and federal environmental agencies have failed to take even the most basic regulatory steps to address this problem.…
Oil Spill Sampling Project Update – LMRK.org
We have all had frustrations with the response to the recent Gulf oil disaster. One such frustration that we at Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper felt early on was the lack of solid data about the impacts from the disaster. This frustration prompted us to begin an environmental sampling project.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: ND, Plaquemines Parish, Terrebonne Parish, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons
Announcing GC-HARMS: UTMB’s Study Of PAH’s In People And Seafood
The following is a letter from Dr. Sharon A Croisant from the University of Texas Medical Branch announcing their new study, entitled Gulf Coast Health Alliance; Health Risks Related to the Macando Spill (GC-HARMS), that will help us to have a better understanding of the impacts of petroleum contamination in the Gulf region.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: GC-HARMS, Gulf Coast, Gulf Coast Health Alliance, LEAN, oil, UTMB
