Despite the stringent abortion ban, AG Liz Murrill said almost 1,000 abortions per month are administered in Louisiana through medication obtained from out of state.
Delaney Nolan discusses the anti-ICE paraders during Mardi Gras.
As more gas moves hundreds of miles by pipeline to an increased number of LNG export terminals licensed by the Trump administration, more pipeline leaks and explosions seem inevitable.
“We are not just statistics,” the writers emphasize. “We are families living in the shadows of corporate greed, forced to inhale the very toxins that threaten our lives.”
Louisiana is among the worst-performing states in maternal and infant health outcomes. Now the city health department offers home visits in those crucial first months.
I remember float riders leaning forward, stretching toys and trinkets toward a sea of Black children, only to snatch them back at the last second, enjoying the pain they inflicted. I remember our tiny, chocolate-skinned hands crushed beneath the weight of white feet, sharp and satisfying to icy, piercing blue eyes.
Like New Orleans, many small cities and towns are grappling with aging infrastructure and frequent boil-water notices.
The oil industry is spending millions in taxpayer subsidies to hide emissions underground rather than transitioning to renewables.
Aneri Pattani from KFF Health News talks about Elyse Stevens, who was a primary care and addiction medicine doctor in New Orleans.
Lawyers for residents say that zoning that concentrates pollution in Black districts is a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
