Environmental Justice

The Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy Cross are concerned about grain dust, pests, rodents and a steady line of railcars passing right outside their doors.

Philanthropic and government investments in environmental justice are helping nonprofits push back against industrial development.

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.

The Mississippi River is an endangered river. For 25 years, a Clarksdale canoe company has worked to teach kids to respect and protect the waterway.

Members of the Krewe of Zulu flung cloth bags from their floats on Mardi Gras in protest of the massive Formosa Plastics complex planned in St. James Parish.

Legal experts say a recent decision in a lawsuit over federal efforts to investigate environmental racism in Louisiana could stall civil rights investigations across the country.

When a judge in Louisiana struck down the air permits that Formosa Plastics needed for its new project in St. James Parish in 2022, it seemed like the long battle to block construction of the largest plastics manufacturing complex in the country was finally over.

After a year of climate disasters, farmers and ranchers met to swap seeds and talk about how they're adapting.

A group of environmental and climate justice organizations from New Orleans and Houston will give grants to other nonprofits that are trying to clean up their communities and reduce the use of greenhouse gases.

Louisiana has gained primary control over where companies can store carbon dioxide underground in the state, after a decision from federal environmental regulators on Thursday.