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 had it all come [...]
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 during a seminar hosted [...]
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 see the vast network [...]
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, the environmental group has [...]
By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on July 21, 2014 at 8:22 PM [caption id="attachment_737" align="alignleft" width="620"] This Landsat satellite photo shows the status of cypress around Lake Maurepas on Oct. 20, 2009. The Atchafalaya Basinkeeper and Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper entered into a $33,000 settlement last week with a Tennessee businessman [...]
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 serious chemical release incidents [...]
