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Preparing for a wildfire or hurricane? Don’t forget water, documents — and your birth control.

Few states include sexual and reproductive health supplies in emergency checklist recommendations, a new report finds.
by Jessica Kutz, the 19th News December 26, 2025 Updated December 26, 2025

State rejects Smitty’s Supply request to dispose of wastewater, storm runoff in drainage

Tests of the collected runoff show it was still too contaminated to be released.
by Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator December 24, 2025 Updated December 24, 2025
A wide, low tree branch covered in textured bark stretches diagonally across a grassy field, with sunlight filtering through dense leaves and other large trees in the background. The scene is peaceful, natural, and spacious.

When the land sickens: the public health cost of environmental rollbacks

by Dr. Rachel Bervell December 11, 2025 Updated December 9, 2025
A bright pink Roseate spoonbill flies low over the grassy wetlands of south Louisiana, its wings fully extended against a backdrop of wildflowers and marsh vegetation.

Nobody seems to want carbon capture — not even Air Products

Air Products wants to off-load its risk for a proposed carbon-capture project in Lake Maurepas, which the writers see as a signal that carbon-capture technology, “a corporate experiment,” is also too risky for the state of Louisiana.
by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré and Livingston Parish Councilman Dean Coates December 8, 2025 Updated December 11, 2025

Reapproval of Commonwealth LNG project rankles Cameron locals, environmentalists

Louisiana Dept. of Conservation and Energy issues another permit after state judge ruled the original shouldn’t have been granted.
by Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator December 5, 2025 Updated December 5, 2025

Oily waste from Smitty’s Supply disaster will be injected under Jefferson Parish landfill

Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch.
by Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator November 14, 2025 Updated December 17, 2025
A 3x3 grid of insect photos showing eight identical bees and one green beetle in the top right corner, symbolizing mistaken identity in scientific research funding.

This Ecologist Lost Her Grant for Studying Diversity—of Insects

The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University.
by Hannah Richter, Sierra Magazine November 4, 2025 Updated November 4, 2025

Trump ‘regulatory relief’ to boost greenhouse, toxic emissions in Gulf states

Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.
by Terry L. Jones for Floodlight October 28, 2025 Updated December 17, 2025

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’

New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.
by Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews October 24, 2025 Updated December 17, 2025

Judge rules permit for LNG terminal in Cameron Parish ignored potential climate impacts

by Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator October 17, 2025 Updated December 17, 2025

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