Senate Bill 469 may put BP claims payments at risk, expert says
Long time Levees.org ally Robert Verchick has joined with other experts in calling for Governor Bobby Jindal to veto Senate Bill 469. The reason is, according to their analysis, S.B. 469 may allow BP to deny paying claims from its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf. Professor Verchick is no hack. Harvard and Stanford educated, […]
Big Oil appears to own the Louisiana Legislature
Last night the Louisiana House approved a bill that retroactively halts a lawsuit filed by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Agency-East against 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies for damage the industry caused to the state’s hurricane buffering wetlands. While this is a dark moment, it’s not the end. Especially since the travesty has gotten […]
Historic legislation is under threat
After the Army Corps of Engineers’ levees broke during Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, and the whole country, found out that we cannot trust the Corps to properly design and build levees. Louisiana residents voted for a new paradigm of levee board governance better suited to a major marine terminal like New Orleans. The […]
