by Florencia Doyharzabal | Mar 6, 2014 | Environmental Law
Local headlines have been dominated by the ongoing story of the lawsuit filed by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East’s board. As many know, the legal claim is directed at nearly 100 of the world’s largest oil and pipeline companies for...
by Florencia Doyharzabal | Dec 14, 2012 | Environmental Law
Two weeks ago in New Jersey, a railroad bridge over Mantua Creek collapsed, sending four tanker cars plunging into the creek. Some 100,000 gallons of vinyl chloride spilled from the railcars and raised a thick toxic cloud. Vinyl chloride, a component of PVC plastic,...
by Florencia Doyharzabal | Oct 2, 2012 | Environmental Law
Louisiana is home to 17 oil refineries, the third-highest number in the United States. With two of the nation’s ten heaviest polluting refineries, Louisiana faces more refinery emissions than any other state except Texas. It is no surprise, then, that a...
by Florencia Doyharzabal | Mar 28, 2012 | Environmental Law
Our Louisiana readers understand that soil pollution can eventually pollute the surrounding waters through rain runoff. Water pollution can eventually contaminate riverbeds, lakebeds and eventually the ocean. Air pollution can harm humans as well as plant and animal...
by Florencia Doyharzabal | Nov 8, 2011 | Environmental Law
Everyone in Louisiana remembers the oil spill that devastated Louisiana’s beaches, wildlife and fishing industries last year. After an explosion on a BP oil well that sent endless gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico finally came to an end, questions...
by Florencia Doyharzabal | Sep 22, 2011 | Environmental Law
Landowners in rural, upstate New York have been given moment to pause over natural gas drilling leases thanks to environmental law. Over the last few years, many landowners entered into natural gas drilling leases with energy companies, but a number of the landowners...
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