{"id":161683,"date":"2026-04-20T01:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161683"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:35:21","slug":"louisiana-senate-kills-air-quality-monitoring-in-cancer-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161683","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Senate Kills Air Quality Monitoring in Cancer Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Louisiana Voice | April 16, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t enough that two years ago, Gov. Jeff Landry signed off on Senate Bill 503, creating Act 181 which set up criminal penalties for citizens who monitor air quality in their neighborhoods with the use of an affordable monitor that had been approved by the EPA.<\/p>\n<p>The new law prompted a lawsuit that claimed vulnerable communities \u2014 like the 100-mile stretch along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans \u2014 were left without warnings of poor air quality. And just today (April 16), a Senate committee, bending to opposition from the petro-chemical industry, failed to approve improved air monitoring at Louisiana industrial plants.<\/p>\n<p>You might better understand why the Louisiana Legislature is incrementally removing the safeguards that were established to protect us from the systemic poisoning of our water and air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/louisianavoice.com\/2026\/04\/16\/why-buy-a-legislator-or-congressman-when-its-so-much-cheaper-just-to-rent-em-for-your-particular-pet-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at Louisiana Voice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Voice | April 16, 2026 \u201cIt wasn\u2019t enough that two years ago, Gov. Jeff Landry signed off on Senate Bill 503, creating Act 181 which set up criminal penalties for citizens who monitor air quality in their neighborhoods with the use of an affordable monitor that had been approved by the EPA. The new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161691,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161683\/revisions\/161691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}