Grassroots air monitoring helps individuals monitor air pollution in their very own backyards. These efforts are beneath menace in Louisiana.
SULPHUR, La. — When Cynthia Robertson moved again to Southwest Louisiana almost a decade in the past to take care of her ageing mom, she fearful she’d be placing her well being in danger. Her mom had developed hypertension and…
Very chilly air Tuesday and Wednesday morning
Climate Alert Day: Freeze Warning Wednesday morning A powerful chilly entrance will convey artic air into southeast Louisiana ATTACK KILLED TWO PEOPLE. ALL RIGHT, WAKE UP ON THIS TUESDAY MORNING. IT’S A WDSU. FIRST WARNING. WEATHER ALERT DAY, JIM. YOU…
No one Appears to Need Carbon Seize — Not Even Air Merchandise
At daybreak within the Maurepas Swamp, you possibly can see 11 pink Roseate spoonbills rise into dawn, off to feast on a lavish buffet of Louisiana shrimp and crabs. The swamp is among the final wild locations left in south…
Air vacationers face frustration as FAA will increase flight cuts throughout the federal government shutdown
KEY TAKEAWAYS: FAA orders airways to chop as much as 10% of flights amid staffing shortages. Hundreds of cancellations pressure main U.S. airports and passengers. Air visitors controllers unpaid for over a month amid shutdown. Climate and plane displacement complicate…
Joby completes first piloted air taxi flight between Marina and Monterey
THE ORDINANCE OR PUT IT ON THE BALLOT FOR VOTERS IN A SPECIAL OR FUTURE ELECTION.# JOBY AVIATION JUST MADE HISTORY HERE ON THE CENTRAL COAST… FLYING THE FIRST PILOTED ALL-ELECTRIC AIR TAXI BETWEEN TWO PUBLIC AIRPORTS. THE 12-MINUTE TRIP…
Louisiana’s ban on group air monitoring is an assault on science and free speech
Since 2022, the U.S. Environmental Safety Company (EPA) has awarded grants totaling tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to group teams that set up networks of contemporary, low-cost air high quality displays. Knowledge from these group displays has crammed…
Air air pollution questions linger over Alabo Avenue Wharf
Many Holy Cross residents stay adamantly against the “revitalization” of the Alabo Avenue Wharf, a warehouse alongside the Mississippi River owned by the Port of New Orleans. Dawn Meals Worldwide plans to transform the wharf warehouse into “the primary devoted…
Behind The Lens episode 276: ‘Respiratory poison air’
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…
Air air pollution messes up pregnant girls’s metabolism, spurs preterm births
This story was initially printed by The New Lede, a information initiative from the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group working to speak scientific analysis that helps inform public coverage on human and environmental well being points. Researchers have…
Pairing of Arctic air and moisture from the Gulf created record-breaking snowfall
On Tuesday, the Nationwide Climate Service workplace for New Orleans formally recorded 8 inches of snow on the Louis Armstrong Worldwide Airport. (Some residents recorded extra measurements, together with Minnesota native Marta Jewson, a reporter for The Lens, who, armed…