Mar
03
2024
As he was cruising to victory in the governor’s race last fall, I wrote that Jeff Landry’s persistent denial of climate science made him a clear and present danger to the drive for a sustainable coastal zone — basically Louisiana's bottom third —...
Jan
29
2024
Inaugural addresses by politicians usually aren’t marked in history books because they are filled with promises seldom kept.
But I’m afraid the introduction Jeff Landry made as Louisiana's new governor this month will be an exception.
I’m afraid because if Landry keeps several...
Jan
01
2024
In this season when many Louisianans are making resolutions to achieve personal goals in 2024, turns out the office of Jeff Landry, our attorney general and next governor, quietly got a head start a few weeks ago: It signed...
Dec
03
2023
While preparing another year-end update on Louisiana’s struggle to keep its sinking bottom third from being swallowed by the rising Gulf of Mexico, I faced a decision.
Should I highlight the odd bit of positive news to keep readers engaged?
Some...
Oct
30
2023
On Jan. 8, the long struggle to maintain the habitability of south Louisiana for future generations will enter its most perilous period.
That’s when Jeff Landry becomes governor. And for the next four to eight years, the fate of the...
Oct
01
2023
Because he is leading the race for governor, Attorney General Jeff Landry is now a clear and present danger to a sustainable future for Louisiana in the age of climate change.
He said so himself with this recent comment about...
Sep
04
2023
What did you think during last couple of decades when scientists “warned” that sea level was rising more than three millimeters a year? Or when they were “alarmed” that the temperature was warming “so fast” that in 5 to...
Jul
03
2023
When trying to explain to nonresidents Louisiana’s cultural and political denialism about the mortal threat climate change poses to our crumbling, sinking coast, my go-to referral has been Arlie Russell Hochschild’s brilliant book “Strangers in their Own Land.”
But I...
Jun
04
2023
Is $18,000 a year too much for a multimillion-dollar company to spend warning neighbors when the poison it pumps into the air has become life threatening?
Is the giant petrochemical industry facing an existential threat from a tiny group of...
May
01
2023
Watching Louisiana’s oil-soaked politicians madly embracing carbon capture to reduce greenhouse gas emissions recalls a famous saying from the 1960s: Long hair can cover a red neck.
Yes, the world desperately needs to reduce emissions any way it can if Louisiana’s coastal...
