In my recent article about the slow release of money from the state for a program to address lead contamination across New Orleans, I wrote about arsenic levels in soil that are supposed to trigger a clean-up under state Department of Environmental Quality policy. In a document sent to me from DEQ entitled “Arsenic sampling [...]

With a new Mayor and City Council on the way, is anyone out there taking the affordable housing issue seriously?
Save for housing advocates like mayoral candidate James Perry, former executive director of the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Center, few other candidates have released a cursory statement acknowledging the report.
The affordable housing crisis has been [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 announced today an award of $932,000 to Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, which is to be used for providing “alternative water supplies and relocation of residents at sites where underground storage tank releases occurred and the responsible party is unknown, unwilling or unable to respond.” This announcement comes on [...]

 
 
I remember clearly the day we filled out our claim forms in the suit against the Army Corps of Engineers. I live not far from the Army Corps office buildings on Leake Avenue, and the cars were lined up, bumper to bumper. Each car had a driver, holding paper in hand. While it didn’t feel [...]

In what has been billed as a first official visit to New Orleans, Environmental Protection Agency chief administrator Lisa Jackson today  addressed the National Brownfields Conference 2009 at the Morial Convention Center.
Jackson called herself a “daughter of the city” (she grew up and attended school through college in New Orleans) but gave an otherwise general 15-minute [...]

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