Multiple tax-cut bills pass the Louisiana House Tuesday
The Louisiana House of Representatives passed several tax bills Tuesday including one that gives $157 million in tax breaks to oil companies, another that...
Lawmakers vote to give $157 million to oil companies and bypass...
A Louisiana House of Representatives Committee narrowly passed a bill Monday that muddies the state’s corporate tax exemption laws by creating a potential loophole...
A burning chemical plant may be just the tip of Hurricane...
By John Pardue, Louisiana State University
Hurricane Laura plowed through the heart of Louisiana’s oil and chemical industries as a powerful Category 4 storm,...
After Hurricane Laura makes landfall, crews battle chlorine fire at BioLab...
In the destructive wake of Hurricane Laura, emergency responders and hazmat crews spent most of Thursday battling a chemical fire at a chlorine plant...
Formosa agrees to defer major St. James Parish construction until February
Formosa Plastics will not proceed with any major construction on a $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex it plans for the west bank of St....
Rise St. James files injunction seeking to halt construction of $9.4B...
Rise St. James, a faith-based environmental justice group in St. James Parish took its fight against Formosa Plastics to Washington Tuesday by asking a...
State board gives 5 companies $140 million off next year’s property...
The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday approved tax breaks for multiple Louisiana companies worth more than $148 million next year alone...
