CHAPTER EXCOM ELECTION - RESULTS!
April 6, 2019
The Chapter membership has recently elected three new members, or returning members to the Delta Chapter Executive Committee.
Follow 2019 L.A. Legislative Session with the Delta Chapter
April 3, 2019
The 2019 Louisiana Legislative session convenes Monday, April 8 - and we're ready.
Already we see pre-filed bills we oppose seeking to tax electric vehicles and reduce limits on hazardous waste polluters, as well as measures we support set to...
Natural Gas - clean energy or Enemy?
March 19, 2019
On a 20-year timescale, Methane (the main component of natural gas) absorbs 86 times more heat than CO2, rapidly warming the planet and exacerbating climate disruption.
Tell your Louisiana colleges and universities to make EV charging available for all students
March 4, 2019
Each year, American passenger cars and trucks, through vehicle tailpipe and oil extraction and transport emissions, spew upwards of three trillion tons of carbon pollution into the air by burning about 121 billion gallons of gasoline. In addition to...
Lawsuit Seeks U.S. Records on Formosa Plastics Plant in Louisiana's Cancer Alley
February 13, 2019
The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Trump administration for refusing to release public records related to an enormous plastics plant proposed along the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, La. The area is known as “Cancer Alley”...
After Sierra Club, other groups file comments, Louisiana orders wood pellet plant to install air pollution controls
February 5, 2019
In May and July 2018, the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), along with the Delta Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, filed written comments to the state challenging a...
Sierra Club joins St. Landry Parish residents in opposing potential injection well
February 1, 2019
Over 100 people attended the LA Department of Natural Resources public meeting last night in St. Landry Parish, with each speaker opposing the proposed hazardous waste injection well Eagle Oil, LLC, proposes to construct in the parish. Sierra Club...
Louisiana's coast likely to be submerged much faster than thought just a year ago
January 30, 2019
In an article this week in The Times-Picayune, environmental reporter Bob Marshall describes how "New research shows oceans are warming about 40 percent faster on average than previously thought, a finding researchers said could contribute a foot to...
Pope Francis’ Climatologist Lectures on Faith and Climate Change Feb. 12 In New Orleans
January 25, 2019
A Carmelite priest from Argentina, Fr. Scarel will speak on Environmental Justice As Seen Through The Lens of Laudato Si’ at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Schulte Auditorium, Notre Dame Seminary, 2901 S. Carrollton Ave. The lecture is free and open...