Behind The Lens episode 236: ‘An energy company deciding subject matter’
Sara Sneath on LSU's unusual relationship with the oil and gas industry. Marta Jewson on Lycée Français charter school's union drive.
Tulane and Port NOLA using arrests to silence Palestine protesters
EPA in the Crosshairs
While industry proponents still see the EPA’s administrator as their foe — deserving of Louisiana prison time, one says — environmental groups say that the agency’s lagging standards lead to increasingly polluted wastewater.
Conditions d’emploi: unionizing at Lycée Français
After Lycée Français teachers began working toward a union, demanding better working conditions, the school’s CEO warned that a union could change the school’s culture. But to the school’s French national teachers, unions are central to the very culture the school emulates.
Fess: The SongByrd of N.O.
Deon Haywood: From flames came new dreams
“Today, 12 years after the fire, 35 years after Women With A Vision’s founding, our world is on fire,” writes Deon Haywood, in this adapted foreword for the newly released book, “Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South.”
Environmental Forum: Sharing Our Stories
Behind the Lens episode 235: ‘One step behind Exxon’ News Update
This week on Behind The Lens, Sara Sneath on a Louisiana law that allows carbon capture well sites to remain unknown under a "trade secret" exception and Nick Chrastil on state legislation that could cut food stamps for thousands.
Needed: a grid for the future
LSU’s fossil-fuel partnerships
At Louisiana’s flagship university, oil companies can influence research and coursework for a price. One critic described the industry votes on research agendas, as described in the boilerplate document, as “an egregious violation of academic freedom.”
