This week on Behind The Lens, life-saving maternal medications, which are also used for abortion, were locked up by Louisiana one year ago. Now the state is trying to use the same blueprint nationally. Louisiana Act 246 has doctors and hospitals scrambling to adjust to the new law. A New Orleans Health Department report chronicles the sometimes terrifying results.
And several environmental groups are yet again challenging Louisiana regulators in their decision to reissue a previously suspended permit for a liquified natural gas export facility in Cameron Parish. The halted Commonwealth facility is one of six LNG export projects proposed, approved or operating along Cameron’s coast. Construction of the pipelines, storage tanks and shipping facilities that make up the facility would dig up or fill nearly 200 acres of wetlands and water bottoms, according to the project’s coastal use permit application.
Our guests this week are Lens reporters Marta Jewson and Louisiana Illuminator reporter Elise Plunk.
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