Halle Parker
Coastal Desk ReporterHalle Parker reports on the environment for WWNO's Coastal Desk. You can reach her at hparker@wwno.org.
Before coming to New Orleans Public Radio, she covered Louisiana's environment for the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate and down the bayou for the Houma Courier. She also worked for the National Audubon Society. Some of her past reporting has centered on environmental justice issues and the state's coastal land loss crisis.
Halle is from a small town in Virginia, and loves playing soccer, painting with watercolors and starting the morning with a hot cup of tea.
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People who live in one of the nation's most toxic areas for air pollution -- known as Cancer Alley -- have lost the ability to sue for protection from environmental racism.
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Federal appeals court considers lawsuit aimed at pausing new chemical plants in St. James Parish. -
What if we get it right? That's the question marine biologist, climate expert, and writer Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson explores in her new book. Ayana joins us to talk about climate solutions we have right now and what's possible for the future of our planet. -
Two years after an international body asked the U.S. to consider a pause on new industrial plants and protect cultural sites from heavy industry in Cancer Alley. It hasn't. -
TV Weather Gets Heated. In a world where weather is getting more extreme, the role of meteorologists is becoming more important—and controversial—than ever. -
Francine did more than leave behind inches of mud. Several docks were damaged or swept away completely. -
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Francine weakened to a tropical storm Wednesday evening after making landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane. -
Gov. Jeff Landry placed all of Louisiana under a state of emergency on Monday as Tropical Storm Francine churns in the Gulf of Mexico. -
Instead of harvesting the trees on its land, a company plans to sell other companies the planet-warming gas stored inside them: carbon dioxide.
