State environmental regulators must require an oil refinery waste reclamation company in Port Allen to identify the pollutants it wants to dump into the Intracoastal Waterway in West Baton Rouge Parish, a state appeals court ruled.
The explosion came from Sasol's low-density polyethylene unit.
State regulators are threatening to deny a vital permit to a company that burns and detonates explosive material in the open air in North Louisiana — unless the company considers other, more environmentally safe ways of doing business.
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It’s a Twelfth Night tradition almost as dear to New Orleanians as getting the season’s first king cake: dragging the Christmas tree to the curb so it can be used to rebuild Louisiana’s eroding wetlands.
A swiftly moving cold front is expected to sweep across southern Louisiana late Friday and early Saturday, bringing severe thunderstorms with heavy rain, damaging hail, wind gusts of more than 70 mph and possibly potent tornadoes.
An environmental watchdog group warns that emissions of greenhouse gases from three key industries linked to oil and gas are rising nationwide, and are expected to increase dramatically in the next few years, in part because of a raft of new and e…
In the battle between local environmental activists and a LaPlace chemical plant that emits potentially dangerous amounts of a suspected carcinogen, politicians at all levels of government have largely steered clear of the fray — much to the frust…
A proposal to build a hotel and conference center in Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville has yet to receive a public vetting — that comes Wednesday night — but is already generating controversy among some north shore residents and environmentalists.
CONVENT — A massive industrial complex proposed for St. James Parish that would create 1,200 permanent jobs but has sparked fierce opposition over the environmental impact has been granted a series of air permits, state officials said Tuesday.
Deep red Louisiana is not necessarily where you’d expect someone to try to launch an art contest focused on the perils of climate change.
GONZALES — Baton Rouge private equity firm Bernhard Capital Partners has closed on a "very significant investment" in Louisiana's largest private sewer provider, affecting nearly 17,000 customers in Ascension and surrounding parishes, one of the f…
The event is Feb. 1.
Only natural green trees can be recycled.
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When Jefferson Parish leaders unveiled a nearly half-mile stretch of porous pavement in Fat City two years ago, they hailed it as a first step in changing the parish's often fraught relationship with water.
GREENSBURG — St. Helena Parish resident Jeremy Cornette, his wife, Christy, and others showed up Tuesday to ask the Police Jury what they've been doing to let people know about the revival of the Darlington Reservoir project over the past year or so.
Mosaic Co. is restarting its idled fertilizer production facilities in St. James Parish and officials hope they will be fully operational by Monday.
Groundwater levels in the aquifer underneath East Baton Rouge Parish have been recovering for at least the past decade, and continuing salt water intrusion into that aquifer doesn't represent a crisis-level threat to the drinking water supply, acc…
Balloon releases can be stunningly beautiful and festive. They also can be deadly for wildlife, livestock and outdoor pets.
Aside from what the $380 million expansion of Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge will mean for traffic, homes and construction delays, another issue is triggering worries: What happens to all the trees in the way of the work?
The driver of a tanker truck that spilled thousands of gallons of gasoline Monday near the Interstate 10 bridge at Port Allen had a suspended driver's license, authorities said.
DARLINGTON — With his carport set aside for sawing wood, Malcolm Lee banged around inside his deceased granddad's former house recently, restoring the old family home from the floods of August 2016 that had sent more than 3 feet of water inside.
Wild-growing cane that holds together the soil of Mississippi River Delta marshlands through its dense, underground growth — stopping saltwater intrusion and keeping the river's distributary channels clear at the Gulf — is dying off at the mouth o…
A difficult growing season for Louisiana cane farmers combined with a disastrous year for sugar beet farmers in the Upper Midwest has prompted federal officials to import more sugar from Mexico to make up for an off-year and keep food prices low.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers advanced a plan Monday to build a dam along the Amite River near Darlington in its effort to limit flooding in heavily populated areas of East Baton Rouge, Ascension and Livingston parishes.
The nation’s sugar crop is expected to be down this year following a difficult growing season in Louisiana that was marred by extreme weather and flooding, as well as significant losses for sugar beet farms in northern states.
The backers of a plan to consolidate sewer service in Ascension Parish say 29 neighborhoods outside the parish also will be part of the deal and pay its increased rates. The Ascension Parish Council would become their rate setting authority, repla…
The state proposal to spend $1.2 billion on new flood protection efforts was sent Thursday for federal approval, hopefully unlocking access to the federal dollars as soon as next spring, state officials said.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish President-elect Clint Cointment is calling on the Parish Council to hold off voting on a 30-year deal for regional sewer service, citing financial and transparency concerns.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish lawyers and financial aides and backers of a 30-year deal to finance, build and run a $215 million regional sewer system are working overtime to refine the plan ahead of a critical vote next Thursday.
More than half of the hazardous waste facilities with state-ordered plans to clean up old spills in Louisiana haven't yet shown how they intend for pay for that work, even though, on average, their clean-up proposals are nearly 6½ years old, a new…
GONZALES — A proposed 30-year deal to finance, build and run a $215 million regional sewer system is structured in a way that ensures cost overruns are born by ratepayers but offers no clear way also to share savings with them, a financial analyst…
GONZALES — Officials running Ascension Parish's west bank water systems say they are prepared for subfreezing temperatures Tuesday night and early Wednesday but are asking residents to watch for water leaks and conserve water.
The city-parish will be hosting the Household Hazardous Materials Collection Day at a new location this upcoming weekend.
GONZALES — An Ascension Parish Council panel that for years has been investigating how to bring a consolidated, public sewer system to the eastern side of the parish will consider on Tuesday night whether to recommend a 30-year deal with a private…
The road to Cat Island is closed … again.
An explosion at the Dow Chemical plant that rumbled across the Baton Rouge region and rattled homes in Plaquemine on Sunday came after workers were rebooting the facility's systems following an overnight power outage, an Iberville Parish official …
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Calling a Port Allen industrial recycling plant's modified air permit a "colossal bait-and-switch," a lawyer for environmentalists asked a Baton Rouge judge Wednesday to vacate the permit and send it back to a state regulatory agency for more study.
Building a 2.2-mile rock breakwater along the northern shore of Lake Salvador in Jefferson Parish and restoring an island to serve as a nesting bird rookery in Cameron Parish, at a combined cost of $36 million, are the latest projects proposed for…
Wild-growing cane that holds together the soil of Mississippi River Delta marshlands through its dense, underground growth — stopping saltwater intrusion and keeping the river's distributary channels clear at the Gulf — is dying off at the mouth o…
Each spring thousands of brown pelicans flock to Queen Bess Island, about three miles off the coast of Grand Isle, to have babies. This month state wildlife officials designated it a state wildlife refuge.
A difficult growing season for Louisiana cane farmers combined with a disastrous year for sugar beet farmers in the Upper Midwest has prompted federal officials to import more sugar from Mexico to make up for an off-year and keep food prices low.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers advanced a plan Monday to build a dam along the Amite River near Darlington in its effort to limit flooding in heavily populated areas of East Baton Rouge, Ascension and Livingston parishes.
State health officials plan to knock on every door within 2.5 kilometers of the controversial Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St. John the Baptist Parish in hopes of determining exactly how many people in the neighborhood have developed cancer.
When it rained on the 1800 block of Duels Street in New Orleans' 7th Ward, flooding almost always followed.
The nation’s sugar crop is expected to be down this year following a difficult growing season in Louisiana that was marred by extreme weather and flooding, as well as significant losses for sugar beet farms in northern states.
The backers of a plan to consolidate sewer service in Ascension Parish say 29 neighborhoods outside the parish also will be part of the deal and pay its increased rates. The Ascension Parish Council would become their rate setting authority, repla…
The state proposal to spend $1.2 billion on new flood protection efforts was sent Thursday for federal approval, hopefully unlocking access to the federal dollars as soon as next spring, state officials said.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell and her deputies have a warning for the owners of overgrown lots around New Orleans: Get them in shape or prepare for fines, fees and potential property seizures.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish President-elect Clint Cointment is calling on the Parish Council to hold off voting on a 30-year deal for regional sewer service, citing financial and transparency concerns.