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  • Tulane gets $18.7M for environmental health

    May 27, 2012 11:14 AM

    NEW ORLEANS - Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is getting $18.7 million for two multi-year environmental health projects designed to help Gulf Coast residents affected by the 2010 BP oil spill. Using $15 million from BP PLC's settlement of class-action medical claims, the school plans a... more »
  • Group: Oil spill imperiled inch-long seahorses

    April 6, 2011 3:52 PM

    NEW ORLEANS - An environmental group is asking the federal government to list an inch-long seahorse that lives in the Gulf of Mexico, off Florida and in the Caribbean, as endangered or threatened, saying last year's BP PLC oil spill pushed it closer to extinction. Dwarf seahorses live in... more »
  • DEQ counters Baton Rouge's high toxicity ranking

    March 2, 2011 6:34 PM

    BATON ROUGE - A Forbes Magazine report ranked Baton Rouge the fifth most toxic city in the nation but the Department of Environmental Quality thinks otherwise. Rodney Mallett with DEQ said that report was misleading and didn't provided enough information. The report compiled 2009 data from five separate... more »
  • Senate: extend review time for offshore drilling

    December 14, 2010 4:43 PM

    WASHINGTON - A bill moving toward approval in the Senate would increase by 60 days the amount of time the Interior Department has to conduct environmental and safety reviews of offshore drilling projects. The bill would extend the review period for offshore exploration plans from 30 days to 90 days.... more »
  • EPA names director for oil spill restoration panel

    October 26, 2010 4:44 AM

    A Florida native and consultant on environmental and land issues has been given the job of executive director for a panel set up to handle ecosystem restoration from the BP oil spill. John Hankinson Jr. will handle the daily affairs of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force, a panel... more »
  • Iowa egg farm tied to "habitual" environmental offender

    August 27, 2010 2:52 PM

    The owner of an egg farm at the center of a massive salmonella recall was able to expand his egg empire despite being branded a "habitual violator" of Iowa's environmental laws - a label that was supposed to ban him from building any more farms. Documents reviewed by The Associated... more »
  • Famed advocate to visit Terrebonne, Lafourche

    June 7, 2010 5:25 AM

    Environmental and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich will be in Terrebonne and Lafourche this week to speak to people who contend they've been sickened by dispersants used to break up a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Brockovich, best known for the 2000 Julia Roberts movie that bears her... more »
  • 75 grads of training program get oil spill jobs

    May 20, 2010 5:46 AM

    Seventy-five graduates of a training program run by environmental justice centers in New Orleans and Atlanta are now working on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup. Dillard University's Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and Clark Atlanta University's Environmental Justice Resource Center have given environmental clean-up courses for 15... more »

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