By: Nathaniel Rich 1. Noses In response to complaints some years ago about blocked plumbing along New Orleans’ Claiborne Avenue, city workers opened up the sewer main and found a human nose. Following the line down the avenue, popping open manholes and looking inside, they discovered ears, fingers, fingernails, shriveled flaps of skin, viscera. Where […]
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Vandenborre shares thoughts on what’s good, bad and ugly about South Louisiana fishing right now
By Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on September 17, 2014 at 11:24 AM, updated September 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM Capt. Dudley Vandenborre is the E.F. Hutton of South Louisiana. When he talks, anglers listen. A standing-room-only crowd gave their full attention Tuesday night to the Jedi Knight of Lake Pontchartrain speckled trout fishing […]
Rapid erosion of Louisiana coast only expected to accelerate
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Scientists- Tests prove fracking to blame for flaming Texas wells
by Brett Shipp / WFAA.com Posted on June 6, 2014 at 9:01 AM Updated Friday, Jun 6 at 9:01 AM For the past two years, News 8 has aired a series of stories of flames shooting from water wells in Parker County. Dangerous levels of methane gas somehow found its way into the water supply. […]