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Formosa Plastics gets air permits back, but a few hurdles remain
Advocates still hope to block the permits for Formosa’s proposed petrochemical complex in St. James Parish, a community at the heart of new research into the health effects of air pollution.
District Attorney Jason Williams will cede some New Orleans cases to state prosecutors. What does that mean for criminal justice in the city?
As state police make arrests in New Orleans, the state AG will prosecute the cases, through a new strange-bedfellows partnership between Williams and Gov. Jeff Landry.
Marshing Orders
To rebuild marshes in the Barataria Basin requires terraces of sand, a map of nearby orphan oil wells and miles of pipe to carry dredged river sediment to degraded wetlands.
After herky-jerky process, Lafayette Academy may stay open.
Parents and students at Lafayette Academy were put through the wringer, as the district yanked its charter, announced it would close, and then reversed that decision, with an 11th-hour proposal to direct-run the school that probably won’t be approved by the school board until late February.
Down the Drain
How Phase III came to be
Though they once applauded the jail’s ambitious, federally overseen reforms, community groups and political leaders in New Orleans united in opposition to a key mandate stemming from those efforts: the construction of a $109 million mental health jail.
‘Auld Len Synes’ – Top 2023 stories
St. John Parish sued for shutting down critic, told not to rezone controversial site
In the same week, a judge again barred the parish from making the Greenfield Property industrial. And parish-council critic Joy Banner filed a First Amendment lawsuit.
