Air-monitoring equipment for the Habitat Recovery Project positioned 25 miles away from where Tuesday’s explosion happened, tracked a steep spike in particulate matter at the time of the explosion and other substantial increases four hours afterward, as natural gas from the pipe burned.
The environmental groups say that the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy “violated its constitutional, statutory and regulatory duties” with its hasty reissue of a construction permit.
Louisiana Dept. of Conservation and Energy issues another permit after state judge ruled the original shouldn’t have been granted.
Judge Penelope Richard cited the close vicinity of other export terminals as a factor in her decision, saying the state “failed to consider the secondary and cumulative impacts” of these facilities on climate change in the coastal zone.
The little brown lizards in New Orleans are thriving with blood levels of lead that Tulane scientists say should be lethal, even in far bigger creatures.
