pollution

The proposed $1.3 billion plant would have been the largest in the world.

WWNO’s Coastal Desk is taking a look back at the local and environmental news we produced this year.

Since the Clean Air Act took effect, emissions of the most common pollutants have fallen by around 80%.

A federal agency created to quell loud industry has gone unfunded for 40 years.

Philanthropic and government investments in environmental justice are helping nonprofits push back against industrial development.

Federal appeals court considers lawsuit aimed at pausing new chemical plants in St. James Parish.

A new survey finds that Latino voters in the Mississippi River basin, including in Louisiana, care deeply about the river and are worried about pollution.

The new ruling bars Louisiana from considering whether to permit industrial facilities in communities already facing a disparate impact from pollution.

A new study shows connection between cancer rates and air pollution in Louisiana's poorest and most industrialized neighborhoods.

The Environmental Protection Agency said none of the chemical and oil spills in Texas caused by Hurricane Laura are emitting dangerous levels of...