February 8, 2017
Jones Swanson focuses on pipelines’ role in Louisiana land loss
Two years after the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority–East hired Jones Swanson to file a lawsuit against nearly 100 oil, gas and pipeline companies for damaging Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a group of South Louisiana landowners hired the firm to file its own case against two of the nation’s biggest pipeline…
August 17, 2016
Bloomberg: Louisiana’s sinking coast is a $100 billion nightmare for Big Oil
“‘The industry down there has relied on the natural environment to protect its infrastructure, and that environment is now unraveling,’ said Kai Midboe, the director of policy research at the Water Institute of the Gulf. ‘They need to step up.’ Every year in Louisiana, more than 20 square miles of…
January 17, 2017
CBS / 60 Minutes: Town under Siege
“In every other industry, federal law would require that waste to be tracked, labeled and handled as hazardous material. But not the oil industry. Years ago, their lobbyists got a special deal from Congress which lets them pump toxic waste out of a well, label it nonhazardous, and dump it…
November 10, 2016
Recent developments in the battle over hydraulic fracturing
The Marcellus Shale stretches across the Appalachian Mountains, and may hold over 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Gas companies are eager to exploit this resource using the controversial technique, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”). This valuable and untapped resource has caused a battle in the northeast among gas companies, environmentalists,…
