Dec
02
2025
In trying to assess what 2025 has taught us about the struggles to save Louisiana’s coastal zone from the Gulf of Mexico and remove the state from the list of the nation’s most polluted, one word comes to mind:...
Nov
02
2025
Twenty years ago, Louisiana began two campaigns essential to hopes for the long-term habitability of the coastal zone, its most populous and economically important region.
One was to prevent the state’s bottom third from sinking below the Gulf of Mexico....
Sep
29
2025
What would you do if your primary care doctor said you were in perfect health but had just canceled annual tests including bloodwork, an EKG, X-rays and even the biopsy a concerned oncologist had ordered?
You’d change doctors, of course,...
Sep
01
2025
It’s getting hard to tell who Louisiana's members of Congress represent when it comes to environmental protection.
Traditionally, these members are identified by their office followed by a brief note containing their party affiliation and — most importantly — the state they...
Aug
28
2025
This story, headlined "Corps never pursued design doubts," was originally published Dec. 30, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's Pulitzer-winning coverage.
The engineering mistakes that led to the canal...
Aug
08
2025
When Gov. Jeff Landry did the expected and killed the state’s first river sediment diversion, this truism came to mind: While it’s hard to earn a good reputation, it’s even harder to regain it once it’s been lost.
Landry's well-earned reputation as...
Jun
29
2025
When assessing patients’ health, doctors distinguish between “symptoms” and “signs.”
Symptoms are subjective, the feelings a patient has indicating something’s wrong.
Signs are objective, the results of X-rays and scans, and call for immediate action.
Now, five months into President Donald Trump’s...
Jun
01
2025
What if I told you that most of your politicians in Baton Rouge and Washington are supporting measures that increase the odds your children will contract terrible diseases just to protect a business sector that ranks only 15th in...
May
05
2025
Last month’s news that the Army Corps of Engineers had pulled the permit for the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion was disappointing for many reasons.
But it may also be the final push the state needs to face critical coastal questions already fast approaching...
Mar
31
2025
Why do Louisiana U.S. Reps. Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson, two of the most powerful members of Congress, think your children should have a better chance of getting cancer, leukemia, suffering brain dysfunction and terrible lung diseases?
And why are...
