The authors say fish will migrate to cooler waters as oceans heat up.
More than 500 suits have been filed in Mobile’s federal court this year.
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…
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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.
Bucktown probably isn't the first place that comes to mind when you think of coastal restoration. In fact, Lake Pontchartrain probably isn't either.
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.
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.
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.
GONZALES — A New Orleans-based nonprofit is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to require the developer of a 103-acre mixed-use community in Gonzales to provide more information about its plans for drainage on the site, a portion of which is …
POINT COMFORT, Texas — Formosa Plastics Corp. has agreed to have tighter wastewater discharge standards and to pay $50 million to settle allegations that a company plant in Texas chronically spilled tons of pellets into waterways near the Gulf of Mexico.
Environmental groups allege the builders of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline left a mess across a swath of the Atchafalaya Swamp, as sections of pipeline remain poorly covered, mounds of dredged earth are piled up across the land, and a series of sloughs…
A state commission under fire over its management of groundwater in the Baton Rouge region agreed Wednesday to find a new full-time executive director and retain its existing part-time director in an advisory role.
With new pumps funded to increase flow on Bayou Lafourche, district poised to remove weir downstream
Officials behind a series of multi-million dollar projects to enhance the flow of Mississippi River water down Bayou Lafourche say they are closing in on the removal a 50-year-old low-water dam across the bayou, possibly sometime next year.
A proposed 283-mile pipeline that would cross 14 parishes from Richland to Plaquemines to feed a planned natural gas export facility has raised concerns from more than 120 residents and one Indian tribe.
WATSON — The Army Corps of Engineers and the Kansas City Southern Railroad have reached an agreement in principle on long-term maintenance for a new railroad bridge planned over the future Comite River Diversion Canal, a Corps project manager said…
PLAQUEMINE — A retired appellate judge appointed to hear a longstanding oil field legacy lawsuit involving the Spanish Lake swamp breathed new life into the landowners' damage claims this week when he granted them new hearings that keep Shell Oil …
Claire Delaune and Pam Sepeda love watching the hummingbirds that gather on the feeders outside their Baton Rouge homes — so much so that the neighbors often find their conversations revolving around how many and which kinds of hummingbirds they’v…
Ella Armstrong has battled flood water that's poured into her New Roads home more times than she can count. She and her neighbors in Pecan Acres, a quaint community in Pointe Coupee Parish, have had to contend with the neighborhood flooding 17 tim…
WASHINGTON — Louisiana’s status as a leading domestic energy producer played a crucial role Wednesday when the U.S. House spent hours debating whether offshore oil and gas drilling should be permanently banned nearly everywhere else.
Mosaic Co. is idling its Louisiana phosphate operations, including a once troubled complex near Convent, for the next three months to cut production and reduce an oversupply of agricultural fertilizer in the North American market.
A recent poll found that 71% of Louisiana's voters believe in climate change and 50% say they're seeing its effects today, leading pollster Bernie Pinsonat to conclude that opinions in Louisiana are changing on the subject.
DONALDSONVILLE — More than three years removed from the August 2016 flood, Ascension Parish has taken an important step to limit the potential for future flooding connected with new development. In so doing, it sought to balance the concerns of an…
An environmental group that has questioned the management of Baton Rouge's drinking water aquifer has launched a campaign to encourage major industries to end their use of the region's groundwater while demanding that Baton Rouge Water Co. detail …
Officials behind a $1.25 billion chemical plant proposed for St. James Parish say they are taking a step back to review the scale and location of the new facility.
Financing deal moves along new fresh water pumps for Bayou Lafourche, thirsty downstream communities
Officials signed an agreement Wednesday laying out the financing plan for a $65 million expansion of the pumps that supply fresh water to Bayou Lafourche and the more than 300,000 people who rely on it for drinking water.
The Sewerage & Water Board has been approved to apply for up to $111 million in federal loan funds to upgrade New Orleans' sewerage system to meet the terms of a federal consent decree.
GONZALES — A New Orleans-based nonprofit is asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to require the developer of a 103-acre mixed-use community in Gonzales to provide more information about its plans for drainage on the site, a portion of which is …
One of the New Orleans area's two primary levee authorities wants the Army Corps of Engineers to assess the possibility of building much stronger levees around the metro area.
More than 30 years ago, Pat Bryant helped organize a march from Baton Rouge to New Orleans to spotlight the environmental problems plaguing Louisiana. Air and water pollution were at an all-time high in the state, and residents of the River Parish…
New Orleans area officials began preparing Thursday for the effects of a minimal Tropical Storm Nestor that is forecast to brush by southeast Louisiana Friday afternoon, but which poses a threat to efforts to stabilize the collapsed Hard Rock Hote…
The amount of lead in the topsoil of playgrounds, yards and other neighborhood spots may be the best indicator of how likely children are to have high lead levels in their blood, according to a new study from Tulane University.
A new study of the economic effects of building the state’s proposed $800 million Mid-Breton and $1.4 billion Mid-Barataria sediment diversions in Plaquemines Parish concludes they would increase regional sales revenue by $3.1 billion and support …
POINT COMFORT, Texas — Formosa Plastics Corp. has agreed to have tighter wastewater discharge standards and to pay $50 million to settle allegations that a company plant in Texas chronically spilled tons of pellets into waterways near the Gulf of Mexico.
Is it feasible to protect the New Orleans area from storm surges caused by a so-called 200-year or 500-year hurricane, a storm with a 0.5 percent or 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any year?
About 30 birds were exposed to oil from a large leak at a Plaquemines Parish refinery about 20 miles south of New Orleans.
The Hancock County Board of Supervisors this week launched a new strategy opposing the proposed $800 million Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion, calling it a threat to the Mississippi county’s fisheries resources and recreational and economic developme…
The LaPlace-based Denka Performance Elastomer chemical plant says it has reduced by 86% its emissions of a compound federal regulators call a "likely carcinogen." Now state regulators are asking the plant to prove it.