Louisiana
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![Houses sit next to deteriorating wetlands]()
![Houses sit next to deteriorating wetlands]()
This Supreme Court ‘victory’ for oil giants is not what it seems
A recent ruling puts $745 million to restore Louisiana's coastline in doubt. But the effort to get Chevron and other oil majors to pay is far from over.
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![A computer generated rendering of a planned export terminal for liquid natural gas in Louisiana.]()
![A computer generated rendering of a planned export terminal for liquid natural gas in Louisiana.]()
The most polluting LNG project in the US is being built in Louisiana
Louisiana LNG is expected to generate more greenhouse gases than any other natural gas terminal in the country.
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![a dead end sign near a house in a residential area with greenery]()
![a dead end sign near a house in a residential area with greenery]()
The biomass industry promised these Southern towns prosperity. So why are they still dying?
States gave Drax millions in tax breaks in the hopes of boosting jobs.
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![Equipment to move logs in between two giant piles of logs at a biomass facility]()
![Equipment to move logs in between two giant piles of logs at a biomass facility]()
Europe gets ‘green energy.’ These Southern towns get dirty air.
In Louisiana and Mississippi, people living near wood pellet mills say they’re getting sick.
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![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
![The Lake Borgne Surge Barrier straddles wetlands near New Orleans, Louisiana. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the barrier after Hurricane Katrina to protect the city from storm surge.]()
20 years after Katrina, New Orleans’ levees are sinking and short on money
The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.
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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."
