Bob Marshall, Al Shaw and Brian Jacobs| bmarshall@thelensnola.org, al.shaw@propublica.org, brian.jacobs@propublica.org This story is condensed from a broad multimedia presentation produced by the nonprofit newsrooms of The Lens and ProPublica. The full version is available athttp://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/ Online, you can track land loss from satellite and aerial images dating back, in some cases, to the 1930s and […]
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Mississippi Power going coal-free at Plant Watson
Posted: Aug 04, 2014 10:57 AM CDT Updated: Aug 04, 2014 12:19 PM CDT By WLOX Staff WLOX.com – The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) – By next spring, Mississippi Power will stop using coal at Plant Watson in Gulfport. The move is part of a settlement with the Sierra Club. In exchange, […]
What the Mississippi Power/Sierra Club settlement means for customers
Posted: Aug 04, 2014 8:18 PM CDT Updated: Aug 05, 2014 9:28 AM CDT By Caray Grace WLOX.com – The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) – You could say, Mississippi Power and the Sierra Club have called a truce. The power company and the environmental group announced a settlement Monday, in their six […]
Maurepas basin cypress restoration to receive $33K from lawsuit settlement
By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on July 21, 2014 at 8:22 PM A Tennessee businessman will give $33,000 to Southeastern Louisiana University’s Manchac/Maurepas Bald Cypress Restoration Project to settle a lawsuit filed against him for illegally logging cypress trees in the Maurepas basin. The settlement between […]
A Demographic Analysis of Chemical Disaster Vulnerability Zones: Who’s in Danger?
An explosion and fire at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, CA caused 15,000 people to seek medical treatment in August 2012. An explosion at a fertilizer facility in West, TX killed fifteen people — including local firefighters — and levelled an entire neighborhood in April 2013.. Which community will be next? The U.S. experiences several […]
Westwego officials up in arms over coal trains plan
By Paul Purpura, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Westwego’s elected officials Monday night continued sounding their alarm over a company’s plan to ship coal through the West Jefferson city in uncovered rail cars, to a shipping facility in Plaquemines Parish. The council last month enacted a resolution, expressing its unhappiness over a proposal to roll coal […]
Oklahoma Looks For Answers On Earthquakes
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 26, 201411:33 PM ET EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — Central Oklahoma residents are demanding to know whether earthquake swarms that have shaken their homes and their nerves in recent months are caused by oil and gas drilling operations in the area. About 500 people attended a meeting with regulators and research […]
Rumble on the Oklahoma prairie
Geologists link state’s increase in earthquakes to fracking July 2, 2014 5:00AM ET by L.E. Ellison The T-shirts say it all: Keep calm and polka on. It has been almost three years since a 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Prague, Oklahoma, buckling a highway, cracking structures and rattling nerves. It was the largest earthquake ever recorded in […]
Taking a Pause to Consider Louisiana’s Future
One of the unique features of life in South Louisiana is the relaxed pace. We tend to pause more than people in the rest of the country to celebrate and reflect upon the bounty around us—friends, family, nature, and tradition. As summer takes hold, days are ideally spent at crawfish boils, on the beach, fishing, […]
Why 28 years have passed since the EPA’s last chemical risk review
Tens of thousands of chemicals have not been reviewed by the EPA, and people are starting to ask questions June 27, 2014 6:36PM ET by Peter Moskowitz @ptrmsk This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hit a major milestone that some people, including leaders at the agency itself, think shouldn’t be celebrated. On Wednesday, the […]