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1,500 swamp rats too many, too stinky; crabber comes to the rescue
United Nations observers said this week that further industrialization in the Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans is a form of "environmental racism" against the area's Black residents and must be stopped despite past fa…
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Up to a third of the bottlenose dolphins in Barataria Bay could die because of dangerously low salinity levels when the proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion is operating at its maximum capacity, according to a new study by biologists with the…
More than 500 giant blue Louisiana irises rescued from a plot slated for development have found a new home in the wetlands along the Nature Conservancy’s Lafitte Woods Preserve nature trail in Grand Isle.
An LSU audit aimed at measuring how completely Louisiana's cancer incidence database has counted new cancer cases around a controversial manufacturer in St. John the Baptist Parish concludes that the Louisiana Tumor Registry appears to have found …
Recent freezing temperatures may delay the peak of strawberry season, but fans of the red, juicy berry grown in the region can still rejoice because production isn’t expected to be badly affected by the cold.
The Audubon Zoo welcomed a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan infant into its family Sunday morning.
It was a bad weekend to be a nutria in south Plaquemines Parish.
23 residents waited too late to sue, insufficiently linked company to their ailments, ruling says
Princeton study sees costs of change largely absorbed by U.S. economy
Little is new in Louisiana's annual plan for addressing the rapid filling-in of the Atchafalaya Swamp.
To make up for four days lost last week due to extended frigid weather, LSU students will have to have four extra days of school in the coming weeks.
Report to quantify benefits of coastal restoration, might help price carbon credits
Federal regulators are being asked to end a nearly 30-year-old determination that exempts the white, radioactive waste material and related acidic water in a St. James Parish gypsum pile from being considered hazardous waste.
ST. JAMES — Partners in a long-running project to build a $1.85 billion methanol complex in St. James Parish have resolved to put behind them a testy legal dispute that had lingered for the last six months of 2020 amid claims of bad faith, cost ov…
Members of Louisiana's congressional delegation said this week a hurricane protection project extending from Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico will receive nearly $12.5 million in funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Jan. 17 update: A boil water advisory has been lifted for parts of Donaldsonville residents after water samples tested negative, according to the Ascension Parish government. An official said the water is safe to drink.
Solar energy farm builders will now need to submit their plans before building in West Baton Rouge Parish after the parish council approved a measure Thursday that would give them more oversight on those projects.
Louisiana transportation crews were out in full force Friday, standing by to salt roads while keeping an eye on forecasts of winter weather in parts of the state starting early Monday.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the wetlands permit for the $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex proposed in St. James Parish.
Five years before five members of a Baton Rouge-area groundwater commission were charged with conflict-of-interest violations, an attorney for the commission warned of exactly the problem that led to the charges, commission records show.
After a California company applied to build a second, larger solar farm in West Baton Rouge Parish, local leaders tapped the brakes on the project this month following questions on how the project would impact the community's look.
Baton Rouge prosecutors announced Friday they would not pursue criminal charges against two New Orleans environmental activists arrested on terrorizing counts after leaving a box of plastic pellets on the doorstep of a chemical industry lobbyist.
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has proposed that German chemical manufacturer BASF pay an $83,000 fine to settle a series of alleged violations at its now shuttered Zachary complex.
A project to restore six lakes around the LSU campus took another step Friday with the announcement of three companies that will begin design and sample work.
Since shortly after Ascension Parish government bought the old Peoples Water Service four years ago, parish officials have complained that old, inaccurate meters were likely shortchanging revenue from the utility system in Donaldsonville.
Ascension Parish government plans to ask voters in late April whether the parish should sell its sewer systems and grant a long-term franchise agreement to a company owned by a Jim Bernhard-led private equity firm, parish officials said.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to award a contract to dig out and build a 1.5-mile segment of the long-awaited Comite River Diversion Canal as early as the end of November, agency officials said.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to take 3½ additional years and spend an extra $6 million to study the proposed Darlington Dry Dam and better assess the risk of catastrophic failure and its impact on minority communities and archaeological sites.
Nearly a year and a half ago, the Legislative Auditor's Office reported that a Baton Rouge-area groundwater regulator uses the honor system to keep tabs on and collect fees from the pumping of the region's drinking water source.
GONZALES — AT&T expects to begin rolling out small cell towers in unincorporated Ascension Parish early next year after the Parish Council adopted a new ordinance Thursday that sets up a permitting process for the structures.
A state district judge sent critical air permits for a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex back to state environmental regulators so they can take a closer look at the St. James Parish facility's emissions impacts on Black residents living nearby.
A lawsuit alleges the town of Gramercy's parade ordinance amounts to an improper and sweeping ban on political and commercial speech that can only be eased at the discretion of local leaders, violating the First Amendment.
The state Board of Ethics Board has charged three more members of a Baton Rouge-area groundwater commission with conflict-of-interest violations over their service on the state regulatory panel.
A federal hazardous materials regulator has proposed a $80,100 fine against Cheniere Energy Inc. over a two-hour-long tank fire at its Sabine Pass LNG complex in Cameron Parish more than two years ago.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to temporarily suspend a permit critical for the construction of a $9.4 billion chemical complex proposed in St. James Parish in hopes of addressing criticisms raised by environmental and community groups.
A collection of environmental groups based in Washington, D.C., Texas and elsewhere has asked a federal judge to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to revisit rules that control the operation of industrial flares at chemical plants, na…
Bishop Michael Duca, the leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge, on Saturday will join other Catholic leaders, St. James Parish residents and environmental groups opposed to a proposed Formosa Plastics complex for an early All Saints …
Mitch Jurisich, a third-generation oysterman, dropped a long pair of oyster tongs into the Gulf of Mexico and lightly raked the water bottom.
The raccoons around New Orleans have more than just a bad attitude.
Toxic air pollution in state’s petrochemical belt is rising; burden isn’t shared evenly
He's expected to sign executive orders Wednesday.
Dow Chemical and two of its subsidiaries would pay a $3 million fine and spend $294 on new pollution controls in a proposed settlement of regulators' claims that their plants in Plaquemine, Hahnville and Texas allowed too much pollution into the air.
A marine contractor from Harvey is facing federal water pollution charges for puncturing an oil pipeline while working on a coastal restoration project off Plaquemines Parish in 2016 -- a project itself spurred by the 2010 BP oil disaster.
ST. JAMES — Partners in a long-running project to build a $1.85 billion methanol complex in St. James Parish have resolved to put behind them a testy legal dispute that had lingered for the last six months of 2020 amid claims of bad faith, cost ov…
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality needs to do a better job of identifying industrial polluters that don't properly report emission violations, and enforce those violations more aggressively, according to a management audit made pub…
There was always something a little odd about the exceedingly rare Bryde’s whales that live in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dams and pollution long ago stripped the Pearl River of its namesake fish, the Pearl darter.
A contractor will conduct a "controlled burn" of about 50 barrels of crude oil that leaked from a Texas Petroleum Investment Co. platform about six miles south of Pilottown on the lower Mississippi River, the U.S. Coast Guard has announced.
Members of Louisiana's congressional delegation said this week a hurricane protection project extending from Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico will receive nearly $12.5 million in funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.