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La'Shance Perry/The LensThree new proposed chemical plants could more than quadruple ammonia production in the Donaldsonville area, leaving Ascension residents to face more toxic air pollution and possible chemical disasters, according to a new report from Rural Roots and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. -
Cross Harris/LSU Manship School News ServiceNow Gov. Jeff Landry is threatening to call a special session to try to pass the tougher bill, which CVS says could force it to close some of its 120 drug stores in Louisiana.
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One of Gov. Jeff Landry’s appointees to the LSU Board of Supervisors received Louisiana Senate confirmation Thursday, despite being the subject of multiple complaints alleging she harassed and threatened university employees. -
Louisiana lawmakers concluded their 2025 legislative session on Thursday by passing the state’s $51 billion budget. -
Alabama has 44 certified SANEs for the entire state. Louisiana has 42. Mississippi only has 6 — for a population of almost three million. -
The annual forecast for the “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, which president Trump has renamed the Gulf of America, predicts the section of water where oxygen is unnaturally low will be about average in size this year. -
Louisiana legislators voted to give $3.5 million in state funds to LSU to purchase a horse facility which the university did not request. -
Talk to most shrimpers and they will say this familiar foe is driving down the price of shrimp, making it nearly impossible for US shrimpers to hang on. -
Louisiana lawmakers are still debating several bills before the legislative session concludes on Thursday, June 12, 2025. -
Both proposals had wide public interest but not enough GOP support. -
The Louisiana Senate has refused to refer a bill targeting diversity, equity and inclusion to a committee where it could be debated, an unusual move that essentially means the proposal will die on the vine. -
Two controversial state bills in the Louisiana Legislature — both designed to aid federal and state crackdowns on immigration — are in the final stages of becoming law after passing overwhelmingly in the state House of Representatives Monday.
