Halle Parker
Coastal Desk Reporter-
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. -
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.
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Punching two more channels upriver from the Bonnet Carré Spillway could bolster habitat nearby while lessening the environmental harm caused farther south, according to a recent Tulane University study.
