LOUISIANA RUSHES BUILDOUT OF CARBON PIPELINES, ADDING TO DANGERS PLAGUING CANCER ALLEY

LOUISIANA RUSHES BUILDOUT OF CARBON PIPELINES, ADDING TO DANGERS PLAGUING CANCER ALLEY

By Delaney Nolan, The Intercept (Aug. 24, 2023)

“Bill Caram, executive director of the Pipeline Safety Trust, expressed alarm that public safety officials would brush off Briggs’s efforts, given the risks and hazards particular to carbon pipelines and their current underregulation.

‘That is the opposite of what we should be doing,” Caram stressed. “Those first responders in Satartia, they’re not activists. They are heroes. … That is a precious resource, to have that direct experience.'”