public scholarship, journalism
Articles and essays
At the Edge of the Map: A Louisiana Tribe Confronts the LNG Boom
Stabroeknews, July 28, 2025
Fraying Ties: Louisiana's Shrimp and Petroleum Festival at Eighty-Nine
Oxford American Magazine, June 1, 2025
Lessons from Our Mother Trees: in our elder's wisdom is a guide for surviving the future
https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/people-places/lessons-from-our-mother-trees/
Country Roads Magazine, May 1, 2025
As Trump's EPA ends 'environmental justice,' minority communities may pay a price
Reuters, April 23, 2025
A Legacy of Resistance Lives on in Cancer Alley
Yale Climate Connections, April 9, 2025
The Rising Hunger of AI Data Centers Accelerates the Need for Clean Energy to Meet Demand
DeSmog.com, Jan 28, 2025
Resilient New Orleans regains its stride, hardly missing a beat after truck attack
Reuters.com, Jan 3, 2025
Hurricane Francine Lands in Louisiana, Hitting New Orleans
Reuters.com, Sept 11, 2024
How federal tax dollars meant to fight climate change could end up boosting Louisiana’s fossil fuel production
The Conversation, March 31, 2024
The Katrina Effect and the Ethical Extraction of Louisiana
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-katrina-effect-and-the-ethical-extraction-of-louisiana
Society and Space, October 20, 2020
West Coast states to fight climate change even if Trump does not
Reuters, December 13, 2016
Older News Articles
https://sites.google.com/view/nedrandolph/news-articles
Article compilation
Issue Briefs
Utility Customers in Louisiana Should Expect Higher Bills as Natural Gas Demand Surges
Invest in Louisiana, May, 2026
Move to Shift New Orleans Utility Regulation to Public Service Commission a Risky Deal for Residents and Climate
Invest in Louisiana, April, 2026
Opinion Editorials
Point of No Return? Time for a New Paradigm
https://thelensnola.org/2026/06/04/point-of-no-return-time-for-a-new-paradigm/
The Lens Nola, June 4, 2026
More Rigorous Air Monitoring isn't Burdensome. It's Common Sense.
The Advocate Times-Picayune, May 29, 2026
Data Center Hype Faces AI Regulation and Community Resistance
DeSmog and Louisiana Illuminator, May 8, 2026
Finding Hope in a Precarious Place
The Advocate Times-Picayune, May 30, 2024
We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast
DeSmog, May 24, 2024
Q&A with Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta
UC Press Blog, May 14, 2024
Industry-backed carbon capture won't solve climate crisis
The Advocate Times-Picayune, Dec 1, 2023
Capturing methane would be a win for the state's bottom line, and for the environment
The Advocate Times-Picayune, Dec 1, 2023
Teaching Through the Doom
Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2020
Op-ed: Battered by Hurricanes and Pollution, It Is Time for Louisiana to Imagine Life Beyond Oil
https://www.desmog.com/2020/10/10/hurricanes-nurdles-pollution-louisiana-beyond-oil/
DeSmog, Oct 10, 2020
Can you say anthropocene?
https://www.vianolavie.org/2019/11/01/can-you-say-anthropocene/
ViaNolaVie, Nov 01, 2019
Mapping the environment of coronavirus: a lesson plan
The Lens, April 16, 2020
Academic Journal articles
The Muddy Underbelly: the Fight for Health, Heritage, and Justice in Louisiana's Mississippi River Parishes
Edited Volume: Soundings on America's Arterial River. (University Press of Mississippi). 2026. Forthcoming.
Pipeline logics and culpability: Establishing a continuum of harm for Sacrifice Zones
Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Second Edition, Elsevier forthcoming January, 2026
Muddy foil: a history of extraction and resistance in the lower Mississippi River Delta
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14791420.2020.1867321
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, March 2021
Modeling authority over a drowning coast
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2022.2113357
Environmental Politics, October 2022
Making Live and Letting Die in COVID-19: The Biopolitics of Race, Space and Freedom
https://spectrajournal.org/articles/10.21061/spectra.v8i2.178
Spectra, July, 2021
Pipeline Logic and Culpability: Establishing a Continuum of Harm for Sacrifice Zones
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.652691/full
Front. Environ. Sci., July, 2021
License to Extract: How Louisiana’s Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast is Sinking It
Lateral, Fall 2018
River Activism, “Levees-Only” and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1179
Media History and Democracy, February 2018
Podcasts & Zooms
Behind the Lens: Part II Conversation about Sea Level Rise and the Future of New Orleans
Lens Nola, June 4, 2026
Behind the Lens: Author A Conversation about Sea Level Rise and the Future of New Orleans
Lens Nola, May 28, 2026
Episode 268: Behind the Lens: Author Ned Randolph Discusses the Electrical Grid and AI
Lens Nola, March 21, 2026
Episode 201: Down the River – Author Ned Randolph Explores “The Big Muddy”
Louisiana Life Insider, October 17, 2024
Discussion with Alabama Rivers Alliance: Water is Life Summer Zoom Series
https://vimeo.com/1000966348?share=copy
Alabama Rivers Alliance, August, 2024