By Piper Hutchinson | Reporter
An amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot could help New Orleans property owners replace lead pipes linked to the city’s drinking water system, but the money it would make available only covers a fraction of the problem.
The Sewerage and Water Board plant in New Orleans, pictured Aug. 18, 2022. (Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Elise Plunk
Louisiana voters will decide Nov. 3 whether public money can be used to remove potentially harmful lead pipes from private property. Its approval would immediately give New Orleans access to more than $150 million to tackle a small portion of the city’s outdated drinking water system.
A volunteer helps a young person fill out a form on National Voter Registration Day in 2025. For some young voters, abortion remains a defining issue, but for many others it ranks behind more immediate economic concerns. (Photo courtesy of Alliance for Youth Action)
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris & Anna Spoerre
In Idaho and Missouri, where voters will decide the future of abortion access on Nov. 3, campaigns are trying to reach a generation dealing with rising living costs and skepticism toward politics. For some young voters, abortion remains a defining issue. But for many others, it ranks behind more immediate economic concerns.
Construction at the Venture Global Plaquemines LNG terminal on the Mississippi River southeast of New Orleans, which is planning a massive expansion. (Photo by Healthy Gulf)
By Victoria Zurner | Oil & Gas Watch
Over the past 14 months, liquefied natural gas companies have proposed new expansion projects at seven gas export terminals along the Gulf Coast, encouraged in part by wars in the Middle East and Ukraine that have boosted the market for U.S. LNG shipments.
By Tim Henderson
Railroads in the 19th century consumed about $173 billion in today’s dollars and created more than 2% of the nation’s annual economic output over 20 years. Today’s data center buildout will dwarf that amount.
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By Andrea Hagan
Louisiana spends public money to move 17-year-olds from parishes without separate facilities for adults and minors because a state law change in 2024 treats them, regardless of the offense, as adults and no longer allows them to go to juvenile detention. But parish jails still must house them separately under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, a federal law approved in 2003.
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