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Roishetta Ozane

Roishetta Ozane

Roishetta Ozane is the organizing director for Southwest Louisiana for Healthy Gulf, as well as the founder/director/CEO of The Vessel Project of Louisiana.

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Smoke is seen rising in the distance from the BioLab Westlake after Hurricane Laura passed through the area on August 27, 2020,

Environmental justice delayed for Gulf Coast does not have to be environmental justice denied

By: and - October 24, 2022

After a long, hot summer of helping people throughout the Gulf Coast who have lost their homes and livelihoods to hurricanes and calling on elected officials in Washington to stop the proliferation of fossil fuel plants, we decided energy officials needed to see what’s happening here firsthand. So we invited the commissioners of the Federal […]

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As peak hurricane season looms, banks bolster cozy relationship with fossil fuel industry

By: and - July 12, 2022

Over the past several decades, the oil and gas industry promised to bring economic prosperity to the Gulf Coast. Instead, it brought financial instability and increasing climate disasters, and forced local communities to pay the price. As a result of the fossil fuel industry’s pollution, people living in the Gulf Coast face a growing number […]