Though federal policy discourages the detention of pregnant women and other at-risk people, Homeland Security numbers show that many have been caught up in the immigration enforcement surge over the past year.
Republican lawmakers are focused on limiting the availability of abortion medication, the most common way to terminate early pregnancies in the United States.
Bill Cassidy went anywhere in Louisiana to give people the hepatitis B vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control — remade by Kennedy — no longer recommends that all newborns get the shot.
Despite the stringent abortion ban, AG Liz Murrill said almost 1,000 abortions per month are administered in Louisiana through medication obtained from out of state.
Louisiana is among the worst-performing states in maternal and infant health outcomes. Now the city health department offers home visits in those crucial first months.
Like New Orleans, many small cities and towns are grappling with aging infrastructure and frequent boil-water notices.
Lawyers for residents say that zoning that concentrates pollution in Black districts is a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.
Carbon capture hasn’t delivered major climate benefits — and the plants would still emit thousands of tons of pollution.
Air-monitoring equipment for the Habitat Recovery Project positioned 25 miles away from where Tuesday’s explosion happened, tracked a steep spike in particulate matter at the time of the explosion and other substantial increases four hours afterward, as natural gas from the pipe burned.
As the state limits sharing of independent data, the Trump administration is delaying new testing requirements for dozens of chemical plants around the Mississippi River Basin.
