From ‘pinky promises’ to reality: SpaceX admits 30 launches a day will block local access
In tense meeting, SpaceX managers told locals the massive spaceport won’t affect them at all, until locals pressed them for specifics
Author: Delaney Nolan
- About Delaney Nolan
- Delaney Nolan is the environmental reporter for The Lens. She has covered climate change and displacement as a freelance journalist since 2021’s Hurricane Ida, with bylines in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Nation, and elsewhere. Her reporting has received support from the International Women’s Media Foundation, the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She’s also reported from conflict zones, including Ukraine and the Occupied West Bank. She also writes fiction; her debut novel, Happy Bad, came out in October 2025.
Holy Cross neighbors sue state fire marshal over sprinklers in New Orleans Port grain project
The fire marshal’s decision to allow Sunrise Foods to install out-of-compliance sprinkler system is “abuse of power,” suit alleges
Sunrise Foods skirts fire code with Alabo Wharf grain facility
Flaws in the plans for the warehouse's fire sprinkler system in the Lower 9 are “so egregious” they should not be permitted, one fire protection expert warned.
Who is ICE arresting in Louisiana, and where? We broke it down.
ICE arrests in Louisiana have reached record highs, as more people without criminal histories are being detained.
Louisiana judge holds ICE official in contempt
Former Maryland acting field office director Vernon Liggins knew he was violating a court order, the court finds.
ICE field director faces contempt charges after twice disregarding judge’s orders
Louisiana judge will decide Wednesday whether to charge ICE officials with contempt for flouting his orders releasing an unlawfully detained Ethiopian man
Unfounded fears hamper Louisiana’s solar boom
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed projects in Iberia Parish promising millions in local tax revenue.
“Stuck in purgatory”: ICE detention times in Louisiana stretch on for years
The number of people in ICE detention at least a year has spiked five-fold, leading to an unprecedented surge in petitions that ask federal judges to intervene.
U.S. citizen stopped in Lafayette, shackled, and detained in Louisiana ICE facility
The U.S.-born woman presented ICE and Lafayette sheriff’s deputies with her state-issued ID and Social Security card. ICE detained her anyway.
This herbicide is so toxic it’s been banned in over 70 countries. But plants in the South are releasing it into the air.
Paraquat has been linked to Parkinson’s disease and just a sip is fatal, but tens of thousands of pounds of it are being released in the Mississippi Basin.
