Meanwhile, a state task force’s call for beefed up air monitoring in areas affected by industrial pollution appears to be ...

The legislature has changed the state’s legal definition of wetlands, leaving doubt over whether permits will be needed to ...

By analyzing data from the past 70 years, scientists discovered trends related to changing storm surge levels. The Southeast ...

Black communities in Louisiana’s infamous “Cancer Alley” are being stripped of their right to document the toxins they ...

While federal law requires publicly disclosed monitoring of major pollutants, fence-line communities in Louisiana have long sought data on their exposure to hazardous and likely carcinogenic chemicals ...

A bill of more than two hundred pages is moving through the legislature. It's described as one to reorganize the Department ...

A coalition of six grassroots environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against a 2024 Louisiana law suppressing community-based air monitoring in the state. The lawsuit calls the law ...

On Thursday, Robertson's group Micah 6:8 Mission and other Louisiana environmental organizations sued the state in federal court over the law they say restricts their free speech and undermines ...

A proposed Louisiana law could dramatically reshape how wetlands are defined and protected—drawing concern from environmental groups, legal experts and floodplain advocates, Louisiana Illuminator ...

“Community members are fully free to raise concerns, publish findings ... or the state,” the complaint states. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental ...

Sponsor Message Last year, Louisiana lawmakers put new requirements on those community testing activities. The law says that for community groups to allege violations of environmental rules ...

NEW ORLEANS – A petrochemical plant in Louisiana accused of increasing ... Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency sought to rein in dangerous chemical emissions from hundreds of ...