In the River Parishes, at the site of the largest slave revolt in history, a new generation is fighting for a cleaner future.
Author Archives: Ned Randolph
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Renewable energy could meet the intense appetites of AI data centers. But Entergy is looking to fossil fuels.
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.
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How federal tax dollars meant to fight climate change could end up boosting Louisiana’s fossil fuel production
The more carbon dioxide the factories produce and capture, the more federal money the projects can receive.
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Mapping the environment of coronavirus: a lesson plan
“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.”