Immunity for oil & fuel corporations are on the horizon if HB804 turns into legislation in Louisiana
On this episode of Behind the Lens, environmental reporter Emily Sanders breaks down Home Invoice 804, a proposal from Brett Geymann that would sharply restrict authorized claims in opposition to oil and fuel corporations for damages linked to emissions. The dialog explores how the invoice…
Judges overseeing Louisiana’s landmark oil instances have monetary stakes in defendants
This story was printed in partnership with Kind Investigations with assist from the H.D. Lloyd Fund for Investigative Journalism, and in collaboration with Verite Information and WWNO/WRKF. A dozen federal judges have presided over a number of the most consequential environmental lawsuits in Louisiana’s historical…
Louisiana’s HB804 may defend oil corporations from local weather lawsuits
As the prices of local weather change bear down on communities throughout Louisiana, a brand new invoice within the state legislature may defend oil and gasoline corporations from having to pay for the injury. Louisiana State Consultant Brett Geymann, a…
Do the ‘climate-tech’ startups headed to outdated Navy base sign innovation—or a canopy for Large Oil?
Seventeen years after the army complicated closed, and 13 years after the Navy donated the property to the town, the sprawling Naval Help Exercise web site on the backside of Poland Avenue is lastly getting refurbished. Whilst work crews revamp…
The day of reckoning: The Supreme Court docket will quickly determine if oil corporations should pay for injury to the LA coast.
On this episode of Behind The Lens, we study a landmark case headed to the U.S. Supreme Court docket that might reshape the way forward for Louisiana’s shoreline and the oil business’s accountability for environmental injury. Host Carolyne Heldman sits down with investigative…
Do the ‘inexperienced’ startups headed to outdated Navy Base sign innovation—or a canopy for Huge Oil?
Seventeen years after the navy complicated closed, and 13 years after the Navy donated the property to the town, the sprawling Naval Assist Exercise web site on the backside of Poland Avenue is lastly getting refurbished. Whilst work crews revamp…
For 100 years, Large Oil knew it was turning Louisiana’s coast into ‘Swiss cheese,’ data present
This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting mission of the Middle for Local weather Integrity. Scott Eustis is doing what he can to maintain Louisiana afloat. As a veteran wetland and fisheries researcher and lifelong resident, he says he’s…
As fuel costs soar, Trump is ignoring the teachings of the final oil disaster
This story was initially printed by Grist. Join Grist’s weekly publication right here. Throughout the notorious oil embargo of 1973, when the world’s petroleum-producing nations stopped exporting to the US in the course of the Yom Kippur Conflict, the results…
Trump’s rush to develop offshore oil leases within the Gulf is dangerous for the atmosphere. It’s additionally unlawful.
The Trump administration determined to public sale off tens of millions of acres within the Gulf of Mexico to the oil trade as a right of the environmental harms. That could be a risk to Louisiana’s communities, wildlife, waters and…
Iran assaults push oil previous $100 amid widening Gulf Conflict
Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei stated Thursday that the leverage of closing the Strait of Hormuz must be used and that Iran’s assaults on Gulf Arab neighbors will proceed.His first assertion since his appointment was learn on state tv…