Articles by Regional Reporter, Louisiana Tristan Baurick
Tristan Baurick is a reporter for Grist and Verite News, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to produce in-depth journalism in underserved communities in the New Orleans area. Before joining Verite in 2024, Baurick was a coastal and environment reporter at The Times-Picayune | Nola.com. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, ProPublica, and Audubon. Baurick has earned first-place awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and National Association of Science Writers, and was a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for environmental journalism. He has also won the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Nina Mason Pulliam Award and its top investigative reporting prize.
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![Black smoke billows across the sky as a chemical storage site burns in a fire.]()
![Black smoke billows across the sky as a chemical storage site burns in a fire.]()
Trump quietly shutters the only federal agency that investigates industrial chemical explosions
Hazardous chemical accidents happen in the U.S. about every other day. Who will investigate them now?
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![Flares of light against a red sky.]()
![Flares of light against a red sky.]()
Louisiana already has 4 LNG terminals. It just added another.
The Trump administration fast-tracked the project approval, reversing a Biden directive.
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![A series of tanks and towers at a petrochemical plant.]()
![A series of tanks and towers at a petrochemical plant.]()
In Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black communities get all of the pollution, few of the jobs
A new study confirms what many have long suspected.
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![Two boats on water divided by buoys.]()
![Two boats on water divided by buoys.]()
A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump’s plan to fast-track industrial fish farming in the Gulf
Advocates for marine health say aquaculture "has no place in U.S. ocean waters."
