Louisiana

Grocery fever, seasonal produce and coming pandemics + this day in history w/the selling of 'The Scream' and our song of the day by Mazzy Star on your Morning Monarchy for May 2, 2018.

(SP) — The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is an environmental justice organization that advocates for communities most impacted by the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants. It has fought construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ Bayou Bridge oil pipeline, and newly released documents indicate activists were targets of surveillance. The environmental justice organization and the Center for Constitutional Rights […]

(TMU) — In a victory for environmentalists, conservationists, fishing operations, residents in flood-prone areas, and even neotropical migratory birds, a federal judge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, halted construction on Energy Transfer Partners’ Bayou Bridge Pipeline project slated to span the heart of Louisiana’s ecologically-delicate Atchafalaya Basin. Although all permits for the project had been granted, allowing construction to begin in late […]

A New Orleans police officer got his job back earlier today after he was fired in 2014 for shooting at a suspect that supposedly had a gun during a high speed chase.
The investigation revealed that the suspect did not have a gun and was actually attempting to flee from the officer, but the New Orlean’s  Civil Service Commission cited a lack of evidence to support the officer’s firing, reports WWL.

Louisiana groups say they are fed up with environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry and that the very least the state should allow a third-party assessment of what’s at stake before a proposed pipeline is allowed to be built.
They also want Louisiana to move to renewable energy, which is far safer and less toxic.
The groups cite the most recent oil spills – two in October in a three-day span, including a platform explosion that injured seven men and a pipeline leak that dumped 672,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The trees are dying, the grasses are dying. The birds we have are all crows – no hummingbirds left, no songbirds, a lifelong resident of Freetown, Louisiana, said as Hurricane Nate approached and plans continued to build a controversial oil pipeline that will end nearby.
Opponents of the pipeline, now that it has received the go-ahead from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, are urging the state to require the company building it to conduct an environmental impact statement for the land it traverses.

A young girl helps hold a U.S. flag during pro-immigration rally, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP/Eric Gay)
NEW ORLEANS – In a groundbreaking ruling for immigrants who say a Louisiana law denies them the right to marry, a federal judge Tuesday granted a Vietnamese man’s petition to marry his fiancée without first showing his birth certificate.

White smoke hovers over a DuPont chemical plant in Belle, W.Va. DuPont – a chemical company with a long history of endangering public health – is being sued by 13 people in Louisiana over emissions from one of its plants. (AP/Jeff Gentner)

Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
Russian Senator Aleksey Pushkov:

“After this scandal with McDonald’s we could start from imposing targeted sanitary sanctions against this company. It is not a ‘holy cow.’”

(ANTIMEDIA) Laplace, Louisiana – A McDonald’s employee says he was fired after posting a disturbing picture of the ice cream machine at the Louisiana location where he worked. The photo he tweeted quickly went viral, prompting an internet backlash for the fast food giant.