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Author: Ned Randolph

In Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, a legacy of resistance lives on.

April 22, 2025 Updated April 27, 2025
In the River Parishes, at the site of the largest slave revolt in history, a new generation is fighting for a cleaner future.

Renewable energy could meet the intense appetites of AI data centers. But Entergy is looking to fossil fuels.

March 5, 2025 Updated March 6, 2025
Entergy, the Louisiana utility, has dragged its feet on renewables. Now, it seems that a proposed Meta data center in northern Louisiana might instead create an “urgent” push for dirty, fossil-fuel power. To power the center, Entergy will rely mostly on new gas-fired generators - paid for by ratepayers.
An observer stands on the less-developed West Bank of the Mississippi River and watches the Marathon Refinery blaze across the river.

How federal tax dollars meant to fight climate change could end up boosting Louisiana’s fossil fuel production

June 6, 2024 Updated June 17, 2024
The more carbon dioxide the factories produce and capture, the more federal money the projects can receive.

Mapping the environment of coronavirus: a lesson plan

April 16, 2020 Updated April 16, 2020
"After the March 13 closure of Tulane University’s campus, we instructors spent a week moving classes online, while students returned home and settled. The question for me and my 28 far-flung students was what to do with a locally-focused environmental journalism class? We quickly turned our final writing project towards the historic crisis at hand."

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