The pardons could affect roughly 10,000 cases in New Orleans.
Posted inEnvironment
Unintended consequences: Louisiana project highlights unknowns around carbon capture
A Louisiana power company wants to capture its climate emissions, raising concerns about impacts on the state’s water supplies.
Posted inBehind The Lens
Behind The Lens episode 182: ‘police aren’t being utilized correctly’
Joshua Rosenberg explains the Army Corps of Engineers’ concerns about the potential cumulative environmental and public health impacts a grain elevator project in St. John may impose on the surrounding community. Nick Chrastil on a new study that found only around a quarter of calls NOPD responded to were crime related at all.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
City increases short-term rental enforcement, but only 43 adjudications in 2022 so far
The city’s goal is to have up to 600 adjudications a year once the office is fully staffed.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Marijuana possession enforcement has ‘virtually vanished’ in New Orleans this year following council ordinance, NOPD policy change
Analysis shows there have been seven summonses issued in New Orleans in 2022, down from hundreds or thousands in previous years.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Federal judge says he still has received no information from Sheriff’s Office regarding jail deaths this summer
Sheriff Susan Hutson has faced ongoing criticism over lack of transparency since she took office in May.
Posted inEnvironment
Losing ground: How one New Orleans community is sinking
Years after Entergy closed a power plant shuts in eastern New Orleans, the community struggles with sinkage.
Posted inEnvironment
Army Corps questions cumulative environmental and health impact of Greenfield’s proposed grain elevator project in letter rejecting “cultural resources survey”
The letter also addresses a failure to properly survey a potential prehistoric site.
Posted inCriminal Justice
Study: Last year, 911 calls responded to by NOPD were rarely for violent crime
Group says the statistics show a need for alternative, non-police responses.
