The Big March to Save Lives in Death Alley
Will Louisiana, beholden as it is to Big Oil and the chemical industry, ever get serious about cleaning up Death Alley?
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Environment
Council, environmental coalition announce plans to increase city’s renewable energy portfolio
Council plan calls for a new solar plant in eastern New Orleans, solar purchases from outside the city. The coalition’s plan aims to get the city to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040.
Entergy’s emissions reduction goals would yield higher emissions than it produced in 2017
Entergy is among the many US utilities who have started switching from coal to gas power, but have been slower to adopt renewables.
Freshwater diversions are killing the ‘canary in the coal mine’
Bottlenose dolphin are dying; oysters, crab and shrimp could be next.
Will Louisiana’s rural electricity co-ops help an ‘oil state’ break free of fossil fuels?
The rural South may be 'red' but it's going solar
Prof disputes column that declared dumping sewage in wetlands a big ‘green’ mistake
Monitoring and research backs use of effluent to revive wetlands
Big ‘green’ mistake: dumping sewage in wetlands carries hidden costs
Confusion at the heart of wastewater discharge experiment
Corps finalizing Industrial Canal lock study as some residents brace for disruption
While the study won’t end until December, the Corps already believes its tentative selection for replacing the lock is the best in a narrow range of options for easing inland waterborne traffic. But some New Orleans residents say they’re outraged that the Corps is still considering the project, which has been planned for decades.
Nathaniel Rich on ‘Losing Earth,’ climate change and the shifting political argument
A Q&A with the New Orleans-based author about his new book.
Seven years and $9 million later, wastewater assimilation a slow starter in New Orleans
S&WB and the City of New Orleans announced in 2011 that they were partnering with St. Bernard Parish to help rebuild the Central Wetlands around Bayou Bienvenue. More than seven years later, the project has yet to discharge a single gallon of treated wastewater.
