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A proposed Atchafalaya Basin project is meant to restore wetlands, but some say it could drown communities and devastate a ...
Donald Trump and Big Oil notched a big win as the Supreme Court significantly weakened the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled to limit the scope of environmental review required under a seminal 1970s ...
Saharan dust is expected to blow across the Atlantic Ocean and reach Louisiana. How will the dust impact hurricane season?
The decision makes it easier to win approval for highways, bridges, pipelines, wind farms, and other infrastructure projects.
The search has lasted weeks to find the inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail. A jail that has a series of issues. The ...
PEREZ: Tejada points to Justice40 as an example. It promised to deliver at least 40% of federal climate programs to overpolluted communities. Tejada says it was an effort to bring benefits to the most ...
The “industry-friendly ban” bars groups from using independent air monitoring systems to inform residents about potential health risks.
While federal law requires publicly disclosed monitoring of major pollutants, fence-line communities in Louisiana have long ...
A petrochemical plant in Louisiana accused of increasing cancer ... and targeted” pollution control measures. Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency sought to rein in dangerous chemical ...
Louisiana’s Department of Energy ... help speed up the deployment of CO2 storage wells, while environmental groups have raised concerns about the quality of state oversight.