Floodlight — with partners at WWNO, the Lens, and the Louisiana Illuminator — is reporting on greenwashing, misinformation and the lack of corporate accountability in Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast.
Gulf Coast
The new ruling bars Louisiana from considering whether to permit industrial facilities in communities already facing a disparate impact from pollution
Gulf Coast
The facility is being touted by state leaders as key to the clean energy transition — and job creator for residents of Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
Gulf Coast
A Bernhard Capital Partners subsidiary — new to the natural gas business — is buying gas systems in Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico
Gulf Coast
The project in Wallace was at the center of a local fight to preserve surrounding area’s historic treasures from further industrial development
Carbon Capture
A report due in February still hasn’t been submitted after a series of public meetings; leaders of the carbon capture and sequestration study are mum
Gulf Coast
Under a new state law, residents will no longer be protected from homeowners’ policy cancellations, higher deductibles or big rate increases.
Gulf Coast
Citing air modeling and new federal soot standards, advocates want environmental regulators to block the proposed 2,400-acre project.
Gulf Coast
Residents of color are pushing the U.S. Department of Justice to block expansion of industrial development in their communities.
Gulf Coast
In Louisiana, few people of color are getting high-paying jobs in the industry — or even low-paying ones
Gulf Coast
The Biden Administration wants to boost offshore wind. But other forces, including cost, political opposition and disinformation, have slowed adoption.
Gulf Coast
Republican legislators have blunted the impact of citizen-led air monitoring, which is set to receive millions from the feds.
Gulf Coast
University researchers say federal regulators fail to consider harm to ‘fenceline’ communities when approving liquefied natural gas plants.
Gulf Coast
The dispute stems from a ruling by a Louisiana judge that the agency’s application of race-based considerations exceeds its authority.
Gulf Coast
Housing, air monitoring, green jobs and coastal resilience are some of the initiatives that could receive funding under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Gulf Coast
Utility argues natural gas plant would keep offshore oil and gas servicing companies, and nation’s only deepwater oil port, operational.
Gulf Coast
Some are asking Congress to add more crop insurance and disaster assistance for smaller producers in the upcoming US Farm Bill.