This week on Behind The Lens, life-saving maternal medicines, that are additionally used for abortion, had been locked up by Louisiana one yr in the past. Now the state is making an attempt to make use of the identical blueprint nationally. Louisiana Act 246 has docs and hospitals scrambling to regulate to the brand new regulation. A New Orleans Well being Division report chronicles the generally terrifying outcomes.

And a number of other environmental teams are but once more difficult Louisiana regulators of their resolution to reissue a beforehand suspended allow for a liquified pure fuel export facility in Cameron Parish. The halted Commonwealth facility is certainly one of six LNG export initiatives proposed, permitted or working alongside Cameron’s coast. Development of the pipelines, storage tanks and transport amenities that make up the ability would dig up or fill practically 200 acres of wetlands and water bottoms, in keeping with the mission’s coastal use allow software.

Our friends this week are Lens reporters Marta Jewson and Louisiana Illuminator reporter Elise Plunk. 

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