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FILE - The Marathon Petroleum Refinery is visible in Reserve, La., Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Environmental advocates and residents of the Louisiana chemical corridor known as Cancer Alley have spent decades calling for change in the way industrial activity is regulated there. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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The EPA can’t use Civil Rights Act to fight environmental injustice in Louisiana, judge rules

A federal judge blocked the Biden administration's effort to apply civil rights law against industrial pollution in Louisiana, limiting EPA actions.

FILE - A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, La., April 21, 2022. What would be the nation's largest export terminal for liquified natural gas won approval from a federal commission Thursday, June27, 2024 although when the southwest Louisiana project will be completed remains unclear in light of a Biden administration delay on such projects announced earlier this year. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine, File)
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Louisiana LNG export terminal gets energy panel’s nod. Will Biden okay it?

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass 2 LNG export terminal in Louisiana, potentially the largest in the nation....

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Greening Mardi Gras: Environmentalists push alternatives to plastic Carnival beads in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a beloved century-old Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of...

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