Today: September 16, 2024
Today: September 16, 2024

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Crime|News|Political

District attorney's progressive policies face blowback from Louisiana's conservative Legislature

New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams promised to address the city's history of prosecutorial and police misconduct

Americas|Business|Crime|Economy|Environment|News

In Louisiana's Cancer Alley, company cancels plans for grain export facility in historic Black town

Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project

In Louisiana's Cancer Alley, company cancels plans for grain export facility in historic Black town
Economy|Environment|News

Clashes arise over the economic effects of Louisiana's $3 billion-dollar coastal restoration project

Proponents of a nearly $3 billion project to restore part of southeast Louisiana’s rapidly vanishing coastline released a study Tuesday touting the expected economic benefits of the construction, even as the project faces fierce pushback and litigation from local communities who fear their livelihoods will be severely affected

Business|Economy|Environment

Billion-dollar Mitsubishi chemical plant economically questionable, energy group says

An energy group says a $1.3 billion chemical production facility to be built in Louisiana by Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Chemical Group is economically questionable and unnecessarily increases greenhouse gas emissions

Environment|News

Group sues federal government, claims it ignores harms of idle offshore oil and gas infrastructure

An environmental group has sued the Department of Interior in federal court for allegedly failing to account for the harms caused by delays in properly shutting down offshore oil and gas infrastructure

News|Political|World

EU, UN reschedule launch of anti-human trafficking project in Cambodia after questions about venue

The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human trafficking program this week after being confronted with questions on the choice of venue: a Phnom Penh hotel owned by a Cambodian tycoon who has another property that has been used by human traffickers

EU, UN reschedule launch of anti-human trafficking project in Cambodia after questions about venue

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