Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the New Orleans City Council have clashed several times over the past week over measures regarding control over and accountability for the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board (SWBNO), as well as budget money for public works projects and other city departments.
Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the second portion of their sixth assessment report. The report offers a look at the most up-to-date information available on the planet's changing climate, and some scientists are calling it "the bleakest warning yet."
It's common practice for any city to give a high-performing executive raises when their institutions are doing well. In New Orleans, however, it appears that city leaders can earn huge salaries and even raises - in spite of poor performance.
Following his Journey to Justice Tour, US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan announced on Wednesday that the agency will begin taking action to bring some environmental justice to Louisiana's more vulnerable communities.
Entergy's move to pull out of a major agreement to provide $30 million for a dedicated substation at the Sewerage & Water Board's Carrolton Plant won't stop the substation from moving forward, said New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno on Monday.
Air pollution is a clear contributing factor to Louisiana's high cancer rates, particularly in marginalized and poorer rural communities such as the area known as "Cancer Alley," says a new study from Tulane University.
Pennsylvania-based petrochemical company Air Products is planning a $4.5 billion dollar blue hydrogen Clean Energy Complex in Ascension parish. This would be Air Products largest investment ever in the U.S. and their 19th facility in Louisiana. Although the project is being hailed as a major clean energy investment in Louisiana, the definition of clean seems […]
Rise St. James President Sharon Lavigne, winner of the 2020 Goldman Prize, recently wrote a poignant letter to President Joe Biden requesting an in-person meeting this week. She talked frankly about what a home means, not just in terms of brick and mortar, but of the toil and sacrifice that goes into creating it and […]
Ret. Lieutenant General Russell Honore issued a scathing rebuke to Louisianas oil and gas industry on Tuesday for its greed and gross negligence. In the typical style for which Honore has become recognized as one of America’s leading environmental advocates, he demanded that the oil corporations not taxpayers foot the bill to remediate […]
Resilient, /r??zily?nt/, adjective 1. (of a person or animal) able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. The word resilient is one that has been oft-used to describe those of us in Louisiana who survived Hurricane Katrina. A description one finds in media spectacles, political assurances, and academic studies. However, this notion of resiliency […]
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