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2015-08-25 00:18:24| Waste Management - Topix.net
Money from settlement between ExxonMobile, Louisiana to upgrade monitoring system for safe drinking water from Baton Rouge to Plaquemines Parish A voluntary program that has watched for chemical pollution in the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to Plaquemines Parish since 1986 is getting a technology boost thanks to money from a settlement last year between ExxonMobil and the state. In 2014, a $2.3 million settlement between the company and the state Department of Environmental Quality included $1 million for beneficial environmental projects.
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2015-08-11 10:31:42| Waste Management - Topix.net
An attorney retained by the Tangipahoa Parish Council to seek resolution of charges by state environmental officials of misuse and storage of shredded tires at the parish-operated landfill told the council Monday he anticipates the matter can be settled within the next several months. Beau James Brock, a Baton Rouge lawyer, presented the council with a lengthy report on progress being made in the effort to end the parish's dispute with DEQ without the parish having .
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2015-08-04 04:42:40| Waste Management - Topix.net
The St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Commission voted unanimously Monday to withdraw a proposed application with the state Department of Environmental Quality to increase the amount of garbage accepted at the parish landfill as well as the number of out-of-parish sources for that garbage. Commissioner Kathy Moreau told the large crowd at the meeting that the commission's vote is in response to the public sentiment displayed at a July 29 public hearing held in Opelousas with DEQ.
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2015-07-27 05:47:26| Waste Management - Topix.net
A raised platform in the Monroe gas field area houses a mercury-containing meter. Keyword Hazardous Material, Environment A natural gas meter in the Monroe gas field area sits just outside a new housing development in North Louisiana.
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2015-07-24 05:10:49| Waste Management - Topix.net
Photo from DEQ public records -- Piles of shredded waste tire material sit near the berm of a firing range in Tangipahoa Parish and included in a report on an April inspection from the state Department of Environmental Quality. DEQ has filed a compliance order against the parish because this material was supposed to be stored at the landfill location and was not supposed to be stockpiled unless it was destined for a DEQ approved project.
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