The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality allows the operator of Smitty’s to dump pollutants from its recent explosion deep into a Jefferson Parish landfill. Plus, NOLA Public Schools improves, getting a B from the state.
As a district, NOLA Public Schools improved from a C to a B. The move up appears to be driven by a jump in A-rated schools in the city.
The shutdown is over, how did the state do in protecting its most vulnerable. And charters await their fate with state evaluations.
Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch
Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012.
The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University.
Fossil fuel companies rebrand as "energy" producers. Also construction of a new LNG terminal is halted by a federal judge.
Gov. Jeff Landry said his health department will find the money to cover $147 million in benefits next month for the elderly, disabled and children.
Louisiana spends too much of its budget on criminal justice while ranking low in healthcare, education, infrastructure, and economic wellbeing. We could redirect those resources.
Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.
