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As Trump's EPA ends 'environmental justice,' minority communities may pay a price

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trumps-epa-ends-environmental-justice-minority-communities-may-pay-price-2025-04-23/

Reuters, April 23, 2025

A Legacy of Resistance Lives on in Cancer Alley

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/a-legacy-of-resistance-lives-on-in-louisianas-cancer-alley/

Yale Climate Connections, April 9, 2025

The Rising Hunger of AI Data Centers Accelerates the Need for Clean Energy to Meet Demand

https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/27/entergy-louisiana-meta-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 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/resilient-new-orleans-regains-its-stride-hardly-missing-beat-after-truck-attack-2025-01-03/

Reuters.com, Jan 3, 2025

Hurricane Francine Lands in Louisiana, Hitting New Orleans 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-orleans-braces-hurricane-francine-evacuations-ordered-2024-09-11/

Reuters.com, Sept 11, 2024

Finding Hope in a Precarious Place 

https://www.nola.com/opinions/guest-column-finding-hope-in-a-precarious-place/article_af0325fc-193a-11ef-ac89-9f58091b92c3.html

Nola.com, May 30, 2024

We Need to Reclaim the Muddy Waters of the Louisiana Gulf Coast 

https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/24/op-ed-we-need-to-reclaim-the-muddy-waters-of-the-louisiana-gulf-coast-from-the-climate-crisis/

DeSmog, May 24, 2024

Q&A with Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta 

https://www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/65548-qa-with-ned-randolph-author-of-muddy-thinking-in-the-mississippi-river-delta/

UC Press Blog, May 14, 2024

How federal tax dollars meant to fight climate change could end up boosting Louisiana’s fossil fuel production

https://theconversation.com/how-federal-tax-dollars-meant-to-fight-climate-change-could-end-up-boosting-louisianas-fossil-fuel-production-225885

The Conversation, March 31, 2024

Industry-backed carbon capture won't solve climate crisis

https://www.nola.com/opinions/guest-column-carbon-capture-wont-solve-climate-crisis/article_d805eabe-8fa3-11ee-a3c8-df6309acec10.html

Nola.com, Dec 1, 2023

Capturing methane would be a win for the state's bottom line, and for the environment

https://www.nola.com/opinions/guest-column-capturing-methane-a-win-for-state-environment/article_c6d87486-0480-11ee-bcc1-bf3a591f9d35.html

Nola.com, Dec 1, 2023

Teaching Through the Doom

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/01/30/teaching-about-environment-precarious-surroundings-opinion#.Xp3jp7QHVrc.link

Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2020

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

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

https://thelensnola.org/2020/04/16/mapping-the-environment-of-coronavirus-a-lesson-plan/?fbclid=IwAR22dbN7IGEyqL6hhCAoCBXdGMuS6v2Er7kD-qoeUTYNlFJwOvyYLP_Dk4w

The Lens, April 16, 2020

West Coast states to fight climate change even if Trump does not

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-trump-climate-westcoast/west-coast-states-to-fight-climate-change-even-if-trump-does-not-idUSL1N1E81ZN/

Reuters, December 13, 2016

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