People living in Louisiana’s petrochemical corridor say they’re worried about air pollution under the Trump administration. The EPA says companies can request presidential exemptions from Clean Air Act rules.

The American Lung Association's latest "State of the Air" report shows air quality has worsened in some Gulf South metro areas.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for the Mississippi River to reach some of its highest water levels in recent years in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster off the Gulf Coast, the effects of the largest oil spill in U.S. history are still being felt.

Fossil fuel interests like carbon capture — it helps them drill more oil and emit less greenhouse gas. Homeowners say, "Not in my backyard."

Fifty-seven percent of the city’s residents support a stormwater fee to maintain the city’s drainage system, according to a survey from New-Orleans based nonprofit, the Water Collaborative.

The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a journalism collaborative based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in partnership with Report for America, publishes an examination of how legal and policy changes will impact wetlands in the basin.

Urban flooding has long plagued Treme, a historically Black neighborhood in New Orleans. Residents are getting creative to find solutions to the issue.

The state Public Service Commission voted along party lines to end a program to save energy and money for residential customers — who already top the US in electricity use.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared only wetlands connected to a “water of the U.S.” will be protected. That ruling, Sackett v. EPA, could remove safeguards from more than half of the nation’s remaining wetland.