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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![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.
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![Floating three levels of machinery on ocean.]()
![Floating three levels of machinery on ocean.]()
What’s missing from Biden’s offshore drilling ban? The western Gulf of Mexico.
That's where the U.S. gets most of its offshore oil.
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![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
How Trump could bring fish farms to the Gulf of Mexico
"If we care about climate change, we shouldn't have them in our oceans."
