Louisiana Bracing For Up To 2' Of Rain, Planning For Even More Petro/Plastic Plants

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Though both Governor John Bel Edwards and President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency in Louisiana as it braces for Barry’s landfall this weekend, neither acknowledge the conclusions of mainstream climate science. Earlier this week The Washington Post reported that Trump White House officials barred a State Department intelligence agency from submitting written testimony to the House Intelligence Committee warning that human-caused climate change is “possibly catastrophic.” This came after State Department officials refused to edit out references to federal scientific findings on climate change.

Honoré, most famous for taking control in New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath, has been busy since 2012 trying to find a solution to pollution and advising on disaster readiness. “Al Gore started warning us about the impacts of global warming over a decade ago, and we didn’t heed the warning,” Honoré said, himself included — but he is now. The need to prevent the worst impacts from climate change is one of the reasons that he has come out against building new petrochemical plants along the 80-mile stretch of the Mississippi River known as Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, where more than 100 petrochemical plants and refineries currently stand.

Honoré sees the building of more fossil fuel-powered factories along the river as a precursor to a Chernobyl-like situation. In doing so, “we are allowing a vicious cycle of reckless corporate drives to speed up global warming.” “Louisiana politicians and the Trump administration’s ongoing denial of climate science won’t change the climate crisis that we are already facing,” Honoré said. “The future we feared is here.” On July 9, Honoré was one of more than 100 people who attended a public hearing held by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality concerning 15 air quality permits for a proposed Taiwanese-owned industrial complex called the Sunshine Project.

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If approved, Formosa, the project’s owner, will be one step closer to starting construction on its $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex in northern St. James Parish on the bank of the Mississippi River. The project would allow for millions of tons of greenhouse gases and hundreds to thousands of tons of pollutants, like fine particulates and sulfur and nitrogen oxides, that can cause human health problems. In the mix of toxic emissions will be benzene and ethylene oxide, two cancer-causing agents that will be worsening the area’s already polluted air.

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https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/07/12/louisiana-tropical-storm-barry-fossil-fuel-projects

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