This week on Behind The Lens, in a placing transfer, the Louisiana Legislature seeks to perpetually complicate Louisiana’s transition towards renewable vitality, with a invoice handed final week which redefines pure fuel, a fossil gasoline, as “inexperienced vitality” and instructs state utilities to make use of vitality generated by hydrocarbons. (Gov. Jeff Landry signed the invoice after the podcast was recorded.)

Three new proposed chemical crops may greater than quadruple ammonia manufacturing in Ascension Parish, in keeping with a brand new report from Rural Roots and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

And a research revealed in Environmental Science & Expertise, examines what air pollution are doing to a pregnant lady’s physique that would set off early labor. The analysis comes because the Trump administration alerts that it desires to roll again requirements governing the discharge of particulate matter referred to as PM2.5.

Our friends this week are The New Lede reporter Brian Bienkowski, and Lens reporters Delaney Dryfoos and Marta Jewson.

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