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This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.

Formosa Plastics returns to fight again

In January, an appeals court injected new life into Formosa’s plans to build a huge plastics plant in St. James Parish. But to make plastic requires vinyl chloride, which already has a toxic 40-year track record in Louisiana.
by Delaney Dryfoos August 19, 2024 Updated August 19, 2024

President Biden announces $150 million in research grants for cancer “moonshot” initiative

Near Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, the president and first lady prioritize goal to halve the nation’s cancer death rates within roughly the next two decades.
by Delaney Dryfoos August 14, 2024 Updated August 14, 2024

Fossil fuel spokespeople ask Louisiana academic to help promote carbon capture

An academic leader at the University of Louisiana Lafayette agreed to help spread industry talking points. Critics say that these relationships are a form of greenwashing.
by Sara Sneath August 9, 2024 Updated August 9, 2024

Greenfield Terminal Terminated

Developers cancel the $800 million grain terminal proposed for Wallace after additional delays from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
by Delaney Dryfoos August 7, 2024 Updated August 7, 2024

Appeals court rules in favor of chihuahua search party

by Nick Chrastil August 6, 2024 Updated August 14, 2024

Angola’s proposed Farm Line fix ‘borders on bad faith,’ lawyers contend

A federal judge ordered the DOC to improve conditions for workers forced to in Angola’s fields. The crews now have sunscreen and a 10x10 popup tent for shade.
by Nick Chrastil August 5, 2024 Updated August 7, 2024

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Due largely to lagging prevention efforts in the Midwest, the low-oxygen area of the Gulf of Mexico is larger than expected this year, prompting fish and shrimp to flee nearly 4 million acres of habitat and killing off bottom-dwelling species.
by Delaney Dryfoos August 2, 2024 Updated August 2, 2024

D is for Drinking Water?

The Carrollton plant’s drinking-water grade fell to a “D.” But that doesn’t mean the water coming from New Orleans faucets today is unsafe, state health department says.
by Delaney Dryfoos July 25, 2024 Updated July 29, 2024

‘Torturous’: Judge places solitary confinement and mental health care at David Wade prison under federal oversight

The north Louisiana prison was using solitary confinement as a “depository for the mentally ill,” judge had ruled.
by Nick Chrastil July 24, 2024 Updated July 24, 2024

‘Robbed’ Kennedy High School grads get their day in court

Judge certifies Kennedy High School 2019 and 2020 seniors for class action, five years after graduation scandal
by Marta Jewson July 18, 2024 Updated July 29, 2024

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