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Le Show for the Week of March 1, 2026

This week on Le Show, Harry presents World of AI News, Truth Social Audio: Iran, News of the Godly, News of Musk Love, News of the Smart World, Side-Effect of the Week, News of the Crypto-Winter, Apologies of the Week, and more!

Le Show

Le Show for the Week of March 1, 2026

Harry Shearer

This week on Le Show, Harry presents World of AI News, Truth Social Audio: Iran, News of the Godly, News of Musk Love, News of the Smart World, Side-Effect of the Week, News of the Crypto-Winter, Apologies of the Week, and more!

Coastal Desk

EPA takes over hazardous material cleanup after Tangipahoa industrial fire

Wesley Muller (Louisiana Illuminator)

Gov. Landry says residents should wait to clean property until toxicity tests are complete.

Student Jorddy Gonzalez and Dr. Cassandra Glaspie retrieve the CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) sensor package after measuring dissolved oxygen at a stop on the Gulf hypoxia cruise.

Coastal Desk

Annual cruise to study Gulf ‘dead zone’ celebrates 40 years amid cuts that threaten to ground it

Elise Plunk (Louisiana Illuminator)

Now, after its 40th year, the cruise faces challenges to stay afloat, potentially undermining decades of research and future plans to get the dead zone under control.

The state's Public Service Commission has approved Entergy’s plan to power a Meta data center in Richland Parish.

Coastal Desk

Entergy’s plan to power new Meta data center gets regulatory approval

Eva Tesfaye

It would be the tech company’s largest data center in the world.

Environmental advocate James Hiatt of For a Better Bayou says communities see little benefit when liquefied natural gas terminals come to town — but the facilities often receive significant local tax breaks. “They give little peanuts. (It’s) nothing to the amount of money that they have been given by the government and the people here,” Hiatt says.

Coastal Desk

Trump-fueled gas boom has fenceline Gulf Coast communities on edge

Pam Radtke, Floodlight, Evan Simon (Floodlight), Jeffrey Basinger, Floodlight

Residents cite pollution, loss of fishing and diminished tax revenue as liquefied natural gas production accelerates here, feeding demand from Europe and Asia.

The Denka plant in St. John the Baptist Parish.

Coastal Desk

Denka, DuPont among Louisiana chemical plants exempted from new EPA pollution rule

Greg LaRose (Louisiana Illuminator)

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.

Barbara Washington, co-founder of Inclusive Louisiana, addresses the crowd at a press conference held on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 at the Hale Boggs Federal Building announcing a lawsuit against Formosa Plastics to gain access to a slave burial site.

Coastal Desk

Environmental groups sue Formosa Plastics to gain access to slave burial site

Aliana Mediratta (Verite News)

Plaintiffs claim that Formosa is violating the 13th Amendment by restricting access to the burial site of five enslaved people who died in St. James Parish.

Scientists aboard research vessel Pelican take water samples to measure oxygen as part of an annual survey to determine the size of the Gulf of Mexico’s “dead zone.”

Coastal Desk

Louisiana created a market to reduce water pollution. Will it actually work?

Elise Plunk (Louisiana Illuminator)

It’s a type of plan that environmentalists, scientists and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says can be a useful tool. But whether the program is fully set up for success isn’t yet certain.

Young men fish in Donaldsonville’s Bayou Lafourche near a Union Pacific Railroad bridge.

Coastal Desk

Will Ascension Parish become Ammonia Parish?

Three new proposed chemical plants could more than quadruple ammonia production in the Donaldsonville area, leaving Ascension residents to face more toxic air pollution and possible chemical disasters, according to a new report from Rural Roots and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.