Week in Review: Council committee takes no action on Entergy sanctions resolution, moving it to full council
The council scrapped its plan to revote on the plant earlier this week.
Fighting Formosa in solidarity with Rise St. James
Behind The Lens episode 19: ‘We no longer can suffer another no-call’
Michael Isaac Stein covers the City Council hearing on Entergy's $5 million fine. Tom Wright updates the Mosaic wastewater crisis. Audubon's Kara Lankford promotes a new vision for Gulf restoration.
City Council directed Entergy to pursue power plant in 2015, months before company’s application for Michoud site
In an ongoing lawsuit, plant opponents say a 2015 council resolution shows that the approval of a new plant may have been predetermined. But City Council utility advisers say opponents are misinterpreting the resolution.
Council committee takes no action on Entergy sanctions resolution, moving it to full council
Councilman Jay Banks was criticized at the meeting after it was revealed that he recently worked for one of the council's utility advisers, a fact that does not appear in Banks' financial disclosures.
New Orleans schools again push back deadline to finish lead filter installation
The district has installed filters in 30 schools, fewer than half of the city's public schools. That’s three sites shy of its December goal.
Mosaic says it can keep wastewater on site in case of breach
Representatives of Mosaic Fertilizer say they are confident about their ability to prevent a potential breach of its gypsum-walled reservoir in St. James Parish. Even so, Mosaic is taking steps to secure the reservoir to ensure that any potential leak of acidic wastewater does not escape from their property
‘Trashforming’ Carnival from a mountain of waste into a recycling bonanza
Innovative krewe rolls Saturday night.
City Council scraps planned power plant repeal vote
A resolution to repeal the City Council's approval of a $210 million Entergy power plant in eastern New Orleans will be withdrawn. A new resolution will impose a $5 million fine and require cost protections, maintenance requirements.
