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Trump exempts plants in La. from pollution rule
Reports detail robberies that didn’t happen Former Glenmora police chief accused of involvement in visa scheme
BY JOSEPH CRANNEY Staff writer
of industrial pollution, though industry groups opposed them as too costly and unsupported by science. Trump’s proclamation issued July 17 grants the two-year exemptions to Shell, BASF, Dow, Union Carbide, Denka, Sasol, Westlake and a handful of other companies in Louisiana. The proclamation doesn’t always make clear to which facilities it applies for those companies. It also doesn’t apply to all 51 Louisiana operations affected by
During the first half of 2024, Tebo Onishea, then the police chief of Glenmora, in Rapides Parish, wrote up a series of reports that documented a jarring number of armed robberies for his town of about 1,000. Visitors hailing from as far as Charleston, South Carolina, or Flushing, New York, reported passing through town late at night, stopping to rest or change a tire, when they were accosted by masked or hooded men carrying guns, Onishea wrote in six reports from incidents he said he handled himself. The men demanded money and jewelry from victims who “feared for their life,” he wrote. Some were shoved to the ground and kicked, his reports stated. The men then escaped into the dark woods. Federal prosecutors say Onishea made all of it up, and that he wasn’t the only one. The newly-obtained Glenmora police reports provide the first look at what federal prosecutors allege was a bribes-for-visas scheme in a 62-count indictment unsealed last week. The alleged immigration fraud conspiracy centers around Onishea and police chiefs in neighboring Oakdale and Forest Hill,
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Cattle graze in a field next to the Denka Performance Elastomer chemical plant in LaPlace. Denka is one of 12 companies to receive a two-year exemption from complying with a rule aimed at cutting pollution and cancer risks.
Regulation was aimed at reducing cancer risks BY DAVID J. MITCHELL and JOSIE ABUGOV Staff writers
Twelve petrochemical companies in Louisiana have received two-year exemptions from President Donald Trump from complying with a 2024 rule aimed at cutting pollution and cancer risks for communities near industrial plants, a regulation they had labeled unnecessarily costly but which environmental activists had lauded as long overdue. The new proclamation cites technological limits, concerns over cost and national
security impacts from supply chain disruptions to put off compliance until 2028 for major petrochemical companies operating in the Mississippi River region and Lake Charles area. Some advocates said they see the new exemptions as an interim move to delay implementation while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency undoes or lessens the requirements permanently. Last year, environmental advocates hailed the rule as a major step in improving air quality for minority and poor communities that often bear the brunt
Heat can’t keep Sipp out of garden
Governor spars with insurance chief again
BY DOUG MacCASH
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It was about 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the dashboard thermometer read 97 degrees, and the iPhone weather app was topped with an extreme heat warning notification. Yet Fred Sipp seemed content as he tended his garden in the milky sunshine on the Lafitte Greenway. The veins in his muscular arms shone like silver under a slight sweat. Sipp was in the spotlight back in mid-June when city agencies showed up at the hand-built shack he called home on the Lafitte Greenway. The makeshift shelter had been declared a fire and health hazard, and after several notifications, it was clawed down by a backhoe and hauled away.
They still aren’t on the same page. Gov. Jeff Landry and Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple are offering sharply contrasting views over how and why General Motors Insurance entered the Louisiana market — a continuation of a battle between the two Republicans during the regular legislative session over how best to hold down rising insurance rates and who is responsible if that doesn’t
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82-year-old Fred Sipp says he’s ‘hanging in there’ six weeks after his hand-built shack was torn down and he agreed to ä See SIPP, page 8A move into a modern apartment.
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happen. Much of their earlier dispute centered on the passage of House Bill 148, which gives whoever is the insurance commissioner the right to reject excessive
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