This week on Behind The Lens, in a unanimous vote on a controversial challenge, the New Orleans Metropolis Council’s Utilities Committee has allowed native vitality firm Entergy New Orleans to promote its pure gasoline distribution system to a brand new and untested entity, Delta States Utilities. They cite job creation amongst different issues, however critics are involved about fee will increase and the brand new firm’s reliance on fossil-fuels.

And within the wake of the passage of Act 246 in Louisiana, the nation’s strongest regulation blocking sure reproductive healthcare=, attorneys representing advocates for ladies’s rights have filed swimsuit towards the state, alleging the brand new regulation is unconstitutional. The town has additionally created a map for docs and sufferers to trace the medicine’s availability all through town.

Our visitors this week environmental reporter Delaney Dryfoos, reporter and photojournalist La’Shance Perry, and managing editor Katy Reckdahl.

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