Clear the air

By Elise Plunk

A grassroots environmental group says this week’s explosion of a natural gas pipeline in Cameron Parish is why its community air monitoring mission needs to be expanded. Its equipment, positioned 25 miles away from where explosion happened, recorded a spike in potentially harmful pollution one hour after the blast. 

By Elise Plunk

Hunting regulators in Louisiana are considering a change to state rules to allow the use of drones to help hunters locate prey after it’s been shot, but would have to step lightly so as not to fly in the face of a federal law that bans hunting by air.

By Elisha Brown

Two drug manufacturers have asked a federal judge if they can intervene in a Louisiana-led lawsuit seeking to stop a key abortion drug from being mailed to patients. The filings come less than a week after the Trump administration sought to pause the case until the Food and Drug Administration completes a review of mifepristone

By Julie O’Donoghue

Like his counterparts in Tennessee and Mississippi, Gov. Jeff Landry is seeking more federal funding for recovery from the winter storm that shut down north Louisiana at the end of January. Landry asked President Donald Trump to grant a major disaster declaration, which should allow the state and local governments to tap into federal resources for cleanup from the deep freeze.

By Kevin Hardy

As Americans grow increasingly frustrated over their electricity bills, states are trying to keep the nation’s growing number of data centers from causing higher energy costs for consumers.