Gulf Coast
Louisiana could be out billions of dollars if controversial coastal restoration stalls
The feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if leaders don’t act soon.
Gulf Coast
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.
Polluting Democracy
Private calls and campaign cash: Louisiana regulators’ ties to the utilities they oversee
The state is tied for dead last in renewable energy adoption. Little surprise, with so much fossil fuel money flowing to its commissioners.
Gulf Coast
California calls plastics recycling tech a ‘stunt’; to Louisiana it’s economic development
ExxonMobil wants millions in tax breaks for a Baton Rouge project that would create no jobs, pollute the environment and recycle few plastics
Gulf Coast
Black women are leading the fight against polluters in Louisiana — and they’re winning
Philanthropic and government investments in environmental justice are helping nonprofits push back against industrial development
Gulf Coast
Crowd size forces Louisiana to postpone hearing on proposed ammonia plant
The public hearing for the St. Charles Clean Fuels Plant will be rescheduled after more than 200 people show up in space meant for 60
Gulf Coast
Unlikely alliance forms to boost community air monitoring in Louisiana
A bulk storage facility plans to join with the Louisiana Environmental Action Network to monitor air quality in a ‘Cancer Alley’ community
Gulf Coast
As funding dries up for Louisiana’s coastal restoration program, advocates are strategizing to sustain it
A coalition of environmental groups is pushing 18 projects to protect Gulf Coast communities from land loss and storm damage
Gulf Coast
Fishers, environmental groups fight massive LNG terminal in court
In the last two months, judges rejected approvals on three Gulf Coast methane facilities, sending them back to a federal agency for further review
Gulf Coast
Mississippi regulators to solar boosters: Sit down and be quiet
State utility regulators have increasingly placed barriers to development of the renewable energy source in one of the sunniest states in the U.S.
Gulf Coast
Louisiana federal court permanently blocks civil rights protections for Black communities statewide
The new ruling bars Louisiana from considering whether to permit industrial facilities in communities already facing a disparate impact from pollution
Gulf Coast
Louisiana advocate leading fight against ammonia plant: ‘I already feel ignored’
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
Louisiana utility commission OKs major donor’s plan to buy Entergy gas system
A Bernhard Capital Partners subsidiary — new to the natural gas business — is buying gas systems in Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico
Gulf Coast
Louisiana advocates ‘gobsmacked’ by decision halting massive grain terminal
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
Like carbon dioxide, this Louisiana task force’s work is deep underground
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
Louisiana’s ‘business-friendly’ climate response: canceled home insurance plans
Under a new state law, residents will no longer be protected from homeowners’ policy cancellations, higher deductibles or big rate increases.
Gulf Coast
Regulators asked to deny permits for giant Louisiana plastics plant
Citing air modeling and new federal soot standards, advocates want environmental regulators to block the proposed 2,400-acre project.