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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![Vapor gathering above a road from a pipeline leak]()
![Vapor gathering above a road from a pipeline leak]()
Efforts were underway to prevent CO2 pipeline leaks. The Trump administration quietly derailed them.
The proposed safety rules would have been the first.
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![Two. men are digging a hole to plant a tree.]()
![Two. men are digging a hole to plant a tree.]()
Another casualty of Trump’s funding freeze: New Orleans’ tree canopy
A program was trying to mitigate the loss of 200,000 trees to Hurricane Katrina.
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![offshore oil drilling rig floats in Gulf of Mexico]()
![offshore oil drilling rig floats in Gulf of Mexico]()
Trump wants more drilling, but the oil market is already saturated
Hundreds of idle oil leases sit untapped in the Gulf of Mexico.
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![An industrial plant]()
![An industrial plant]()
Mitsubishi cancels plans for a $1.3B chemical plant in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
The complex would have stretched across 77 acres and been a major polluter.
