Report: Oil Spills Dropped Dramatically Last Decade October 17, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the...
Louisiana Men Survive 28 Hours at Sea After Boat Sinks October 13, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey Two anglers whose boat sank over the weekend the Gulf of Mexico clung to an improvised float and fought off...
Report: Oil Spills Dropped Dramatically Last Decade September 29, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey Oil and natural gas spills from tankers and pipelines in U.S. waters dropped dramatically from the last decade of the...
US Aims to Reverse Some Trump Offshore Safety Rule Rollbacks September 15, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday that it wants to reverse some Trump administration rollbacks of offshore safety...
Louisiana Completes Major Coastal Restoration Project August 3, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey Louisiana has completed one of its biggest coastal restoration projects yet, and is at work on even bigger ones. The...
Abandoned Louisiana Oil Wells to Receive Clean Up in Infrastructure Bill June 6, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go...
Abandoned Louisiana Oil Wells Slated to Receive Clean Up in Infrastructure Bill May 27, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey About $33 million of the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan recently signed into law by President Joe Biden will go...
Power Outages Increase as Extreme Weather Inflicts Toll on Aging Grid, Vulnerable Citizens April 7, 2022 By Matthew Brown, Camille Fassett, Patrick Whittle, Janet McConnaughey and Jasen Lo Power outages from severe weather have doubled over the past two decades across the U.S., as a warming climate stirs...
3 in Louisiana’s Camp Minden Explosion Case Owe $140K to $34.8 Million Restitution February 22, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey Three of the men who pleaded guilty in connection with what a prosecutor called the nation’s worst dumping of explosives...
Pipeline’s Safeguards Malfunctioned in Louisiana Diesel Spill February 21, 2022 By Matthew Brown and Janet McConnaughey A corroded pipeline that ruptured and spilled 350,000 gallons (1.6 million liters) of diesel fuel into a New Orleans-area wetland...