air pollution

A new study from Johns Hopkins University measured 17 cancer-causing air pollutants across four parishes between Baton Rouge and New Orleans in 2023.

A climate group led by Al Gore has expanded a new modeling tool to visualize the often-invisible health threat.

After a proclamation from President Donald Trump, two facilities located in LaPlace, Louisiana will be allowed to ignore federal regulations meant to curb harmful pollutants.

Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application.

Community groups are suing the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality over a new law that could prevent them from publicly sharing their air monitoring data.

Residents fighting against pollution from a nearby petrochemical plant are both relieved and disappointed after it suspended production.

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.

Residents of the mostly Black communities sandwiched between chemical plants along the lower Mississippi River have long said they get most of the pollution but few of the jobs produced by the region’s vast petrochemical industry.

A federal appellate court says a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies by placing polluting industries in majority-Black communities can move forward.

Communities living and learning near petrochemical plants will face more pollution and less federal protection under Trump’s new policies.