Oil and gas pipeline. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 By Mark Olalde / ProPublica and Capital and Main Last year, representatives of New Mexico’s oil industry met behind closed doors with the very groups with which they typically clash — state regulators and environmentalists — in search of an answer to […]
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Real-Time Data Show the Air in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Is Even Worse Than Expected
Petrochemical manufacturing plant. Photo from Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 from Sept 7, 2008. By Naveena Sadasivam / Grist Since the 1980s, the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that connects New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been known as “Cancer Alley.” The name stems from the fact that the area’s residents […]
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Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
By Mark Olade and Nick Bowlin / Grist Climate News This story was originally published by ProPublica and was produced in partnership with Capital & Main and Gray Television/InvestigateTV. The first sign of trouble bubbled up from gopher holes a stone’s throw from Stan Ledgerwood’s front door. The salt water left an oily sheen on the soil and a swath […]