Scientists from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond have deployed four research buoys to independently monitor Lake Maurepas while Air Products continues its project to store carbon dioxide under the lakebed. Â
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced a new chair and executive director of the state agency charged with restoring and protecting Louisiana’s withering coastline.Â
Faculty members say LSU’s move away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) language happened without their input and with little transparency after the fact.Â
Congress has spent more than six years avoiding its responsibility to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program, using a series of stopgap bills to extend the life of the program that has issued nearly 5 million policies.
In a meeting that boiled over with testy exchanges and chanting crowds, Louisiana utility regulators adopted a long-awaited energy efficiency program they say will bring accountability to utility companies and stop them from charging customers for power they don’t use.Â