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Sabrina Canfield

Resistance Grows To New Louisiana Bayou Bridge Pipeline

“We don’t for a second believe that the state of Louisiana is able to oversee the safe construction and operation of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline… There are accidents every single week in the oil industry in this state, and there is no sign of that ending.”

1 11 月, 2017
Sabrina Canfield
1 11 月, 2017
作者 Sabrina Canfield
An oil facility is seen in the middle of canals dug for oil pipelines on the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

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

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Louisianans Fight Oil Pipeline Through Cancer Alley

“Fruit is falling off the tree before it gets ripe … It doesn’t matter what you’ve planted, it doesn’t grow. If this was a problem we caused ourselves, that would be one thing. But this is not a problem we caused.”

9 10 月, 2017
Sabrina Canfield
9 10 月, 2017
作者 Sabrina Canfield
An oil facility is seen in the middle of canals dug for oil pipelines on the coast of Louisiana, Wednesday, July 28, 2010. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

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

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Louisiana Law Restricting Immigrants’ Right To Marry

Former Louisiana Gov. Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, who was born in Louisiana to an immigrant Indian-national father, signed the law in July 2015.

9 8 月, 2017
Sabrina Canfield
9 8 月, 2017
作者 Sabrina Canfield
green card

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. Act 436, signed into law in July 2015 and in effect since January 2016, “is an unlawful state attempt to

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Huge Dead Zone In Gulf Of Mexico Traced To Midwest Meat Industry

The dead zone in the Gulf has been monitored for the past 32 years. It stretches from the mouth of the Mississippi River into Texas and is created every year by low oxygen levels in water.

3 8 月, 2017
Sabrina Canfield
3 8 月, 2017
作者 Sabrina Canfield
Cattle trounce around a huge pile of manure as a pen is cleaned out at the JBS feed lot west of Greeley in Kersey, Colo. (AP/Ed Andrieski)

NEW ORLEANS – Tyson Foods, the largest meat producer in the United States, is a major cause of an enormous dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico – expected to be the largest ever this summer – according to a new report from an environmental nonprofit. Toxins from fertilizer and manure that pour into the Mississippi River from farms throughout

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Louisiana House Passes Bill To ‘Protect Confederate Monuments’

The bill bars local governments and municipalities from removing plaques and statues for “military figures” and events, without a public vote.

17 5 月, 2017
Sabrina Canfield
17 5 月, 2017
作者 Sabrina Canfield
A statue of Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard is prepared for removal from the entrance to City Park in New Orleans, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. (AP/Scott Threlkeld)

BATON ROUGE  – Still fighting the Civil War, after hours of heated debate, the Louisiana House on Monday night approved a bill to protect Confederate monuments statewide. Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards on Tuesday called the bill “problematic,” impractical and unnecessarily divisive, but he did not say whether will veto it if it comes to

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