Halle Parker
Coastal Desk Reporter-
The low levels are affecting drinking water and shipping traffic up and down the river. Once submerged sand bars have surfaced and shipping has been disrupted.
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Documents obtained by member station WWNO show a now shuttered EPA investigation could have brought historic change to an area of Louisiana known as Cancer Alley."
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Today on Louisiana Considered, we hear about the oil and gas industry’s response to a new campaign against petrochemical expansion in the Gulf Coast coming from former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg. Plus, we hear an interview with Louisiana gubernatorial candidate and former senior official in the Jindal administration, Republican Stephen Waguespack. -
On today’s episode of Louisiana Considered, the WWNO/WRKF Coastal Desk reports on this year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season, and commemorates Hurricane Ida’s landfall one year ago.
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To help wean Europe off Russian gas, the White House wants to increase natural gas exports. Critics say that's at odds with climate goals. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on May 4, 2022.)
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Six employees were injured after a blast at Marathon Petroleum's Garyville refinery sparked a fire and sent a shockwave felt in surrounding parishes, the company said Tuesday.
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Emergency officials are responding to an explosion that occurred at Marathon Petroleum’s Garyville Refinery on Monday morning in St. John the Baptist Parish.
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Louisiana fishers might soon see federal disaster relief more than two years after the unprecedented flooding of 2019 — now considered the longest flood on record — devastated much of the commercial industry.
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As climate change continues to produce more intense storms and rising seas, some of Louisiana’s congressional delegation wants to make protecting the nation’s shorelines a top priority for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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The Sierra Club announced its intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday after the federal agency had failed to act on states who haven’t complied with sending the Regional Haze Plans required by the Clean Air Act.
