Buyouts for a petrochemical complex threaten to erase Modeste
Lawsuit targets rezoning of land for industry, which would displace hundreds in Modeste, a predominantly Black community in Ascension Parish.
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.
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