New Orleans trash collectors litigate over removing foul French Quarter odors
Read full article: New Orleans trash collectors litigate over removing foul French Quarter odorsIn one of America's favorite party hotspots, residents and business owners say the stench of trash and bad decisions is being scrubbed clean like never before.
Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlement
Read full article: Louisiana cancels $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by oil spill settlementLouisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.
Trump's interior and energy secretaries cheer on natural gas export industry in Gulf Coast
Read full article: Trump's interior and energy secretaries cheer on natural gas export industry in Gulf CoastThe planned expansion of a massive liquefied natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana is a beacon for U.S. energy policy, according to two members of President Donald Trump's cabinet who spoke to workers there.
Federal court reviews civil rights lawsuit alleging environmental racism in a Louisiana parish
Read full article: Federal court reviews civil rights lawsuit alleging environmental racism in a Louisiana parishThe Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is reviewing a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies that placed polluting industries in majority-Black communities.
In Louisiana's Cancer Alley, company cancels plans for grain export facility in historic Black town
Read full article: In Louisiana's Cancer Alley, company cancels plans for grain export facility in historic Black townResidents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project.