The regional groundwater commission is thinking about increasing the fee charged to pump water out of the aquifer beneath Baton Rouge to pay for a new study intended to provide a long-term plan for protecting the water supply.

The fight between the state and Plaquemines Parish over a key project in the state’s 50-year coastal master plan is escalating, with the board that oversees the state’s coastal restoration efforts threatening to withhold funding for other Plaquemi…

Ascension Parish has won a seat on the groundwater commission that oversees the health of the aquifer beneath Baton Rouge, over the objections of some commissioners from East Baton Rouge.

As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets about tearing up air pollution standards, environmental activists are warning that it’s bad news for Louisiana, which faces the prospect of more hurricanes and other severe weather events.

As they quarrel with state regulators and company officials over whether Bayou Bridge is being constructed legally in St. James Parish, environmentalists are trying to drag the local District Attorney's Office into the fray. 

Once again, the Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" must be measured in the size of a U.S. state.

Mixing dire warnings about the urgent need for action to save Louisiana's disappearing coast with optimistic statements about the future, Gov. John Bel Edwards welcomed several hundred attendees Wednesday to the biannual State of the Coast confere…

A weather system heading into the Gulf of Mexico is expected to bring rain to South Louisiana over the next few days, and authorities said Tuesday there’s a chance it could turn into a tropical storm.

The Pearl River between Bogalusa and Slidell has become choked off by an unsightly dam of logs, garbage and debris that even fish can’t get through, let alone boats plying the waterway.

Louisiana residents who worry about the health of their rivers, aquifers being drawn down to unsafe levels and infrastructure that protects some people from rising waters at the expense of their neighbors aren’t alone. Those living in many cities …

Baton Rouge is on pace Thursday to set its second heat record this week.

Louisiana often has too much, while Arizona frequently has too little, but water is a major concern for all the Sunbelt states.

With some predictions already out for an above average hurricane season in 2018, authorities gathered on Wednesday to urge people to be prepared for storms that may lie ahead.  

Federal judges may support construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline, but a St. James jurist may have thrown the brakes on construction near the structure's terminus.

President Donald Trump may not want the U.S. to participate in international climate initiatives, but the leader of one small Louisiana city on the Mississippi River thinks that’s a mistake and is urging other mayors to weigh in on the threat pose…

Baton Rouge area residents will have an opportunity to take an up close look at the specialized "Hurricane Hunter" aircraft used to track hurricanes and talk to hurricane experts, scientists and local and state first responders during a day-long e…

Russian fish won't be making caviar in Louisiana after all.

Louisiana hunters may someday have a new legal quarry to pursue — bears.

Baton Rouge has long struggled to get its air quality in line with national standards, but the ozone concentration around the city has finally dipped to acceptable levels under the stricter regulations promulgated last year.

Volkswagen will be picking up as much as half the tab when Louisiana school districts purchase new buses following the company's agreement to spend billions of dollars in settlements for trying to dupe environmental regulators.

East Baton Rouge's trees provide $20 million of value to the community every year, according to a new report.

The companies building the Bayou Bridge Pipeline have spilled 87,273 barrels of hazardous liquids in 527 separate events in the past 15 years, according to a report entitled "Oil and Water" released Tuesday by Greenpeace and the Waterkeeper Alliance.

Louisiana Earth Day is setting up shop at LSU's Parker Coliseum this year with a greater focus on events catering to children and families, according to organizers.

Neighboring parishes are staring each other down from opposite banks of Bayou Manchac.

It's now up to the Louisiana Legislature and the governor to decide whether to allow farmers to raise non-native sturgeon for caviar or if they'll need to rely on getting the eggs of home-grown fish.

Skulking through the waters of Louisiana — and occasionally the air above — a notorious invasive fish that has ravaged the Upper Midwest has begun to turn from nuisance to threat.