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Comments on behalf of GreenARMY, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Willie Fontenot, and Oneil Couvillion to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Opposing the creation of a water quality trading program which would allow facilities to discharge pollution into Louisiana waters in excess of what the law allows by buying credit from another source of pollution) (192-001) (Feb. 28, 2018)
Comments to LDEQ on behalf of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network and others opposing an LDEQ permit for uncontrolled releases of mercury from the Noranda Alumina, LLC/Gramercy Holdings I, LLC alumina processing Plant (the “Plant”) located in St. James, Parish between Gramercy and Mt. Airy, Louisiana. (101-124) (June 8, 2017)
Comments to LDEQ on behalf of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Seeking reform of a Clean Air Act permit for Oxbow Calcining, LLC’s petroleum coke calcining plant in Baton Rouge because (1) emission exemptions violate the Clean Air Act (2) and monitoring requirements do not assure compliance with permit limits. (101-134) (May 17, 2016)
Comments on behalf of Save Our Hills et al. to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Opposing a Clean Water Act § 401 water quality certification for a Southern Aggregates LLC proposed sand and gravel mine adjacent to the Oak Hills residential subdivision in Livingston Parish, Louisiana) (184-001) (April 21, 2015)
Comments on behalf of Save Our Hills et al. to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Opposing issuance to Southern Aggregates LLC of a Clean Water Act § 404 permit for destruction of 12.91 acres of wetlands in conjunction with a sand and gravel mine adjacent to the Oak Hills residential subdivision in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, and urging the Corps to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)) (184-001) (Mar. 30, 2015)
Comments on behalf of the Town of Abita Springs to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (Opposing the application of Helis Oil & Gas Co., LLC for a drilling permit to drill a vertical exploratory well and then a horizontal well for hydraulic fracturing, based on failure to conduct an environmental impact statement, violation of local zoning laws, risks to the drinking water aquifer, geologic faults in the proposed drill area and other unmitigated risks of the proposal (183-001) (Nov. 19, 2014)
Comments on behalf of the Gulf Restoration Network to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Opposing changes to Louisiana’s antidegradation regulations which would lower protections for Outstanding Natural Resource Waters in violation of EPA regulations that interpret the Clean Water Act) (157-024) (7/1/14)

Comments on behalf of Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, O’Neill Couvillion, and Janice O’Berry (Opposing Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality proposed reissuance of wastewater discharge permit to Bogalusa paper mill, now owned by International Paper, because of agency failure to require updated treatment technology and reliance on flawed study of effect of discharge on aquatic life in the Pearl River) (157-046) (2/25/14)

Comments on behalf of Save Lake Peigneur, Inc., the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and Mr. Roger Stelly (Suggesting changes to proposed rules of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources governing solution mining injection wells in salt domes and storage of hydrocarbons in solution-mined caverns in salt domes) (172-002) (12/6/13)

Comments on behalf of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network and Ms. Stephanie Anthony to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Noting numerous problems with, and unenforceability of, the proposed settlement agreement between ExxonMobil and LDEQ to resolve past and future violations of the Clean Air Act by ExxonMobil) (101-055.1) (10/14/13)

Comments on behalf of the Christian Ministers Missionary Baptist Association of Plaquemines, Inc., Ms. Joyce Cornin, and Ms. Velma Davis, to the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management (Opposing application by RAM Terminals, LLC for Coastal Use Permit to construct and operate a coal and petroleum coke export terminal near Ironton in Plaquemines Parish, based on pollution impacts, conflict with planned freshwater diversion, dangerous hurricane and storm risks, and economic instability of project) (177-002) (8/15/13)

Comments on 2d Consent Decree Modification in U.S. v. City of Baton Rouge, No. 88-191A (M.D. La.) on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of University Place Subdivision and Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Alleging that EPA failed to show that a proposed revised consent decree governing Baton Rouge’s North Wastewater Treatment Plant is fair, reasonable, or equitable because: 1) the proposed decree extends the sewage treatment plant’s violations of EPA’s environmental justice regulations, (2) the proposed decree continues an EPA enforcement pattern of extending deadlines that Baton Rouge fails to meet and overlooking violations of existing agreements, and (3) EPA failed to collectstipulated penalties or otherwise enforce an earlier (2002) Consent Decree) (101-117.2) (3/2/12)

Comments on EPA Proposed Disapproval of Louisiana’s 2008 Clean Water Act 303(d) List on behalf of the Gulf Restoration Network and the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Supporting EPA’s listing of three nearshore segments of the Gulf of Mexico for Dissolved Oxygen and objecting to EPA’s failure to disapprove 99 delistings and failure to list the Gulf and the Mississippi/Atchafalaya for nutrients) (157-023) (5/13/11)

Comments on behalf of Jan Betrand, et al. on Toce Energy, LLC’s application to permit an injection well in Gueydan Canal Field, Vermilion Parish for disposal of oil and gas exploration and production waste (Expressing residents’ concerns about plans to pipe dangerous waste more than two thousand feet across rice and crawfish farms and water supply canals to an injection well). (168-001.2) (2/3/11)

Comments on behalf of Gulf Restoration Network, Concerned Citizens of Independence, Agnes Oliphant, Charlie Tate, Curtis Vedros, and Amanda Vedros (Opposing proposed Clean Water Act § 402 state wastewater discharge permit for Town of Independence POTW for failure to include required effluent limitations and pretreatment conditions for impaired receiving water) (162-002) (12/17/09)

Comments on behalf of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and the Gulf Restoration Network to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Commenting on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Industrial Canal lock replacement project final supplemental environmental impact statement) (112-004) (5/4/09)

Comments on behalf of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and the Gulf Restoration Network to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Commenting on Industrial Canal lock replacement project draft supplemental environmental impact statement) (112-04) (1/26/09)

Comments on behalf of Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Gulf Restoration Network, and Louisiana Environmental Action Network to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Objecting to LDEQ’s proposed CWA section 401 water quality certification for Valero Oil Refinery to destroy over 67 acres of cypress forested wetlands for a parking lot, storage facility, and facility expansion) (157-018) (2/27/08)

Comments on behalf of Save Our Neighborhoods, Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Environmental Action Network and Mary Jones to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Objecting to a proposed Clean Air Act Operating Permit for a petroleum tank farm near Garyville and Mt. Airy communities in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana)
(156-001) (10/1/08)

Comments on behalf of the GreenZone Task Force, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and O'Neil Couvillion to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Objecting to LDEQ's draft general permit for water discharges from construction and demolition debris and woodwaste landfills)
(158-001) (2/15/07)

Comments on behalf of the Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and Mr. O’Neil Couvillion to Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Alleging inadequacies and errors in LDEQ’s Triennial Review of its Water Quality Standards) (157-007) (2/15/07)

Comments on behalf of Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and O'Neil Couvillion to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (Objecting to a proposed permit for a portable water treatment facility to discharge to any state waters, including Outstanding Natural Resource waters)
(157-002) (9/19/06)

Comments on behalf of St. Bernard Citizens for Environmental Quality, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and the National Refinery Reform Campaign on a Proposed Settlement Agreement Between the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Chalmette Refining, L.L.C. (Objecting to LDEQ’s proposal to supplement a federal consent decree with a side-agreement granting ExxonMobil and others broad releases from liability in return for the donation of air monitors to the LDEQ)
(151-004) (11/28/05)

Comments on behalf of St. James Citizens for Jobs and the Environment, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Ms. Albertha Hasten, Ms. Diana Honor, Ms. Helen Simmons, and Ms. Mercshondria Honor regarding the permit application of FTM & Associates for the land application of sewage sludge near Romeville, St. James Parish (Opposing issuance of the permit because of unreasonable health risks, the lack an adequate analysis required by the State constitution, and inconsistencies with relevant regulations)
(107-013) (3/24/03)

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