New Environmental Briefing Book
Protecting Louisiana An Environmental Briefing Book
A coalition of environmental groups, including LEAN, has put together an Environmental Briefing Book which highlights some of the environmental challenges that Louisiana faces and opportunities we as Louisianians have to better ourselves by addressing those issues.…
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Company to Import and Export Nuclear Waste Through Port of New Orleans
EnergySolutions applied for licenses from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to import radioactive waste from decommissioned Italian nuclear power plants through the ports of New Orleans and Charleston, South Carolina. The company intends to process the radioactive waste in its facility in Tennessee and transport the remainder to its disposal site in Utah.…
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Landfill Proposed for St. Gabriel Area
The application asks for a permit to allow the C&D waste to be piled to a height of 65 feet and to allow 100 trucks of waste to be brought to the landfill every day.
The north boundary of the property is formed by Community Canal which flows into Bayou Braud.…
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Baton Rouge Loop Threatens Alligator Bayou – Take Action
You probably know that there is a “Loop” in development for Baton Rouge. What you may not know is that a number of the routes being considered for the loop would bring it right through the Spanish Lake Basin / Alligator Bayou / Bluff Swamp area.…
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Summer Volunteers and Interns Needed for Riverkeeper Program
We need interested and dedicated people to help monitor the Mississippi River as part of the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper program. You would be spending 2 to 4 hours several times a month on a boat monitoring conditions in the Mississippi River.…
Our Threatened Cypress Forests
Bags of Cypress Mulch
In the past cypress mulch used to be a by-product of lumber mills. This is no longer true. The mulch purchased today comes from widespread clear cutting of entire ecosystems.
Loggers are operating with little to no oversight.…
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Final Report on the Riverkeeper Project – A report from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, June 12, 1998
Summary
The Riverkeeper Project was completed in April of 1998. During the course of the project monthly river water samples were taken at six sites on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Each sample was tested for metals, trace elements, volatile organic chemicals, semi-volatile organic chemicals, organic pesticides, PCB’s (Polychlorinated Biphenyls), PCP’s (Polychlorinated Phenyls), odor, pH, turbidity, water hardness and dissolved oxygen.… Louisiana Water Quality Failures – 2001
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is NOT Protecting Water Quality & Public Health in Louisiana
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s (LDEQ) Water Quality Mission:
To ensure that the citizens of Louisiana have clean and healthy water to drink and use for present and future generations by regulating pollution sources and providing technical support for the restoration of polluted waters.…
