Donaldsonville, LA - Hyundai Steel is hosting a groundbreaking ceremony today for its proposed steel facility in Donaldsonville, neglecting the fact the company is still lacking an approved air permit and amidst serious questions about the facility’s location in Cancer Alley, pollution levels, local water supply impacts, and jobs.
Donaldsonville, LA - As impacted residents provide public testimony later today on Hyundai Steel’s air permit for its proposed steel plant, Sierra Club is urging significant permit changes and pollution reductions. The hearing is part of a too-brief public comment period that will now end on September 15th after the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) granted a short 13-day extension following requests from multiple local groups and individuals including Sierra Club.
DONALDSONVILLE, La. — Labor, environmental health, civil rights, and community groups are warning that the recently published proposed air permit for Hyundai’s steel mill will have a severe impact on community and worker health, exacerbating cancer, asthma, and respiratory and nervous system disease.
Washington, DC - The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality must fully evaluate the veracity of local job claims, community impacts of taxpayer subsidies, and other economic ripple effects of Hyundai Steel’s proposed facility, according to new comments submitted today by Sierra Club. These analyses are required by law, under the Louisiana Constitution's public trust doctrine.
Today marks the mandatory six-year review of the United States-Mexico-Canada trilateral trade agreement, known as the USMCA. With a long-term agreement to extend the deal highly unlikely, and no countries opting to leave the deal, USMCA will move automatically to annual reviews through 2036.
Sierra Club and its Delta Chapter called on the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to conduct a project-specific environmental justice analysis of Hyundai Steel’s proposed facility in Louisiana. The request comes after the company largely removed an initial environmental justice analysis from its revised permit application.
According to reporting from Bloomberg, the United States will not renew the trilateral trade agreement it has with Canada and Mexico, known as the USMCA. At the time USMCA was negotiated, Trump declared it “the greatest trade deal ever,” but the U.S. trade deficit has increased under the deal.
In an update made public Monday, Hyundai Steel submitted changes to its air permit application that reveal the company plans to switch nine dirty industrial heaters at its proposed steel plant from gas-fired to electric. The company also said they would install additional pollution controls that will significantly reduce emissions from its original plans, which failed to consider these efficient options at all.
Representatives from the Good Neighbors Louisiana coalition dropped in on Hyundai’s offices in Gonzales to present the company with a list of demands regarding its proposed $5.8 billion steel mill in Donaldsonville, as well as comments filed with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) about the company’s failure to establish safeguards on toxic dust from transportation and construction.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released draft text from Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) and Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA). The draft legislation attacks five years of successful and cost-reducing federal investments in electric vehicle charging, clean trucks and buses, and clean transit on which communities across the country rely.