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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD +1-202- 514-1888
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... Modification'') in United States and Louisiana v. City of Baton Rouge, Civil Action No. 3:01-cv-0...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, 1+202-514-2008, TDD, +1-202- 514-1888/ /Web: http://www.USDOJ.GOV
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Dean A. Andrews, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellant.
Lloyd Cyril Melancon, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., Prim ...
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Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's Office of Environmental Justice's Janice Dickerson allows building of plant in Romeville, Louisiana
An EPA regulation is seen not as an environmental justice by government and environmental officials in the US but as an act of environmental redlining. As a result of allowing Shintech Corp to establish a polyvinyl chloride plant, Dickerson has been banned from talking to Romeville people.
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WASHINGTON, June 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) today announced two settlements that will lead to substantial cleanup of hazardous substances at facilities owned by Marine Shale Processors Inc. and Recycling Park Inc. in Amelia, La.
The first settlement is with Marine Shale, Recycling Park, and John Kent Sr. under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Clean Water Act; the Clean Air Act; and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). The second settlement is with Southern Wood Piedmont Company and Rayonier Inc. under RCRA and CERCLA related to the Marine Shale and Recycling Park facilities.
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Just in time for Veterans Day Friday, Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. reminds military veterans they have some help.
Foti created the Veterans Rights Section within the Louisiana Department of Justice to address legal issues specific to reservists, National Guardsmen and military veterans. The Veterans Rights Section is a clearinghouse to ensure veterans get any help needed from the appropriate agency in the most efficient manner.
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[Marcus Jones], [Mychal Bell]'s father, told the AmNews during an exclusive telephone interview on Aug. 29 that saying this was a case of "un-equal justice" was putting it mildly. "Things aren't changing here in the South. They used to put the dogs and water hoses on us; and beat us with whips. Now, they beat us down with the law," Jones stated. He said he cannot understand why not one government official has stepped in on behalf of his son.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco (Louisiana) has refused to intervene; and the Justice Department said that District Attorney Reed Walters hasn't done anything wrong. They say we are making a big fuss," Jones told the AmNews.
"A white student got caught with a shotgun after he threatened a group of Black students-nothing happened to him. Two Black students wer...
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WASHINGTON - The first flare-ups of civil unrest were spreading across the segregated South in early 1961 as newly appointed Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy sat hunched over a map of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Justice Department civil rights chief Burke Marshall and his top deputy, John Doar, told Kennedy that the pins in the map marked counties and parishes where the department had opened investigations or sued to protect blacks' right to vote.
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... Commission Director, Phillip Shelton; Louisiana Gaming Control Board Member, Trudy Smith and Isle ... and former regulators Louisiana Department of Justice Deputy Director, Leonce Gautreaux, Lion...