environment

Lifelong residents of St. James Parish will speak in federal court on Monday about how parish officials and ordinances have, for generations, explicitly directed industrial plants into predominantly Black neighborhoods.

Programs that provide drought relief to farmers use the U.S. Drought Monitor to determine eligibility, but some experts say it doesn’t always capture local conditions.

Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River.

In the last two months, judges rejected approvals on three Gulf Coast methane facilities, sending them back to a federal agency for further review.

A new survey finds that Latino voters in the Mississippi River basin, including in Louisiana, care deeply about the river and are worried about pollution.

Environmental justice activists from opposite sides of the world came together on Friday in New Orleans to discuss their fights against the petrochemical industry. The event raised awareness about the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster in India.

The new ruling bars Louisiana from considering whether to permit industrial facilities in communities already facing a disparate impact from pollution.

Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear the second part of the latest episode of Sea Change about the lasting impacts of segregated beaches in New Orleans. Plus, we head to the Historic New Orleans Collection to learn about an exhibit on the connection between slavery and the modern prison system.

Cameron Parish residents are concerned about a recent request to increase emissions from a liquefied natural gas plant.

Instead of harvesting the trees on its land, a company plans to sell other companies the planet-warming gas stored inside them: carbon dioxide.