How Entergy spent $1.3 million to polish its reputation, script support and monitor opposition to its new power plant Our reporting on paid actors who helped pack public meetings to pad support for Entergy’s new power plant was just the tip of the iceberg. This week, we take you behind the $1.3 million campaign for a new […]
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Audio: As the city addresses flooding, residents take matters into their own hands
New Orleans: Ready or Not?How prepared is New Orleans for stronger storms and extreme temperatures?When it comes to stormwater management, New Orleans’ road projects are behind the timesRising temperatures strain New Orleans’ electric gridIn New Orleans, aging water system causes school closures New Orleans is a city that floods. Even a small storm can leave […]
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Audio: Coastal erosion threatens the levees that protect the city
Experts say New Orleans officials need to need to come to terms with what it means to be a coastal city.
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Audio: In New Orleans, aging water system causes school closures
New Orleans: Ready or Not?How prepared is New Orleans for stronger storms and extreme temperatures?When it comes to stormwater management, New Orleans’ road projects are behind the timesRising temperatures strain New Orleans’ electric grid Climate change is bringing more intense weather, including more rain, heat and storms. And in New Orleans, extreme weather can be […]
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Audio: Rising temperatures strain New Orleans’ electric grid
In Louisiana, temperatures could increase by ten degrees by the end of the century.
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Remembering Felicia Kahn: A relentless fighter who made a difference
Wide awake to injustice before anyone was ‘woke.’
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How Entergy spent $1.3 million to polish its reputation, script support and monitor opposition to its new power plant
We know about the scheme to pay people to show up at meetings to support a new natural gas plant in New Orleans. But that was just a fraction of more than a million dollars the utility spent to burnish Entergy’s reputation, script support and monitor opponents.
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Councilwoman Nguyen’s nonprofit, two advisers to Cantrell worked on Entergy’s campaign for new power plant
Cantrell’s spokesman said she knew about the relationship, but “on this and on every other issue — Mayor Cantrell thinks for herself.”
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Live coverage: City Planning Commission to hear from public on short-term rentals
We’ll be there at 3 p.m. Tuesday, and you can follow along live or catch up later on the play-by-play.
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Audio: When it comes to stormwater management, New Orleans’ road projects are behind the times
A FEMA-funded program to repair roads is meant to put things back the way they were, not make them better.