In addition, the state officials ask to residents in the Baton Rouge area to help out ... less and combining errands to reduce the amount of vehicle pollution adding to the problem.

For the 10-parish Baton Rouge region ... s Advance Program to promote local voluntary actions to reduce ozone and/or fine particle pollution. There are also funding opportunities available ...

Aging plants that process a byproduct of crude oil refining into vital metals feedstocks exist in a gap of federal pollution oversight ... these 13 facilities in Baton Rouge, Gramercy, Chalmette ...

More than 30 years ago, Pat Bryant helped organize a march from Baton Rouge to New Orleans ... said she doesn’t plan to stop raising awareness about pollution as long as more industry moves ...

For locals around the Baton Rouge refinery, pushing for Exxon to reduce pollution can be difficult given its economic and political clout as a major Louisiana employer. Sidney Poray, 60 ...

“Making Baton Rouge a cleaner community will take a whole community approach. MRCTI’s Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative gives our citizens a powerful tool to help stop plastic ...

Federal and state regulations require large municipalities, like Baton Rouge, to address the amount and type of pollution carried ... Rating System scores, reduce flood insurance rates and flood ...

A lawsuit challenges a Louisiana law that restricts the use of low-cost air quality monitors in environmental justice efforts.

Earlier this year, the EPA asked 17 Gulf Coast refineries and chemical plants to participate in a voluntary program to reduce pollution. Exxon Mobil Baton Rouge refused. So did the other plants ...

with the ultimate goal being to reduce pollution in rivers and oceans. The initiative was launched last Saturday in Baton Rouge, the first of three cities participating in a pilot program that ...

Industrial pollution on this ribbon of land between New Orleans and Baton Rouge puts the mostly ... "It's got to be something drastic to stop it," she said. "We're going to push for the most ...

The Standard Heights neighborhood sits next to the nation's second-largest gasoline refinery. Recently, residents learned a new truth about the plumes of exhaust they see every day: Exxon Mobil's ...