The Louisiana School Board voted to close Fifth Ward Elementary due to toxic emissions concerns and low enrollment.

A southeast Louisiana school board voted to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school next to a petrochemical ...

The governor says simplifying permitting will help attract jobs and investment to Louisiana. Environmental groups say more ...

On Jan. 27, 2021, newly-elected President Joe Biden announced the Justice40 initiative. The initiative’s goals are ambitious: ...

The school is also in a U.S. census tract with the highest risk of cancer from air pollution in the country, according to an ...

Pam Spees speaks in New Orleans during a press conference following a hearing addressing environmental racism in Cancer Alley in October 2024. (Sabrina Canfield/Courthouse News) A press conference ...

Denka is also the only industrial plant in the nation that emits chloroprene, a likely cancer-causing chemical. Judge Jay C. Zainey of the Eastern District of Louisiana stressed that he wanted ...

The findings by the Louisiana Bucket Brigade may have implications ... remains across the larger industrial corridor, dubbed "Cancer Alley" by advocates. The company said that it has respected ...

MOSSVILLE, La ... the neighbor who lost a young child to cancer — all moved to other parts of Louisiana. Next door sit the pilings on which her father’s house stood until, two days ...

(Photo provided by Sharon Lavigne) A Louisiana environmental group is ... fights over industrial pollution in the so-called Cancer Alley petrochemical corridor between New Orleans and Baton ...

An aerial view of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley as seen in 2013. (Photo by Giles Clarke / Getty Images via Grist) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to ...

A sign outside Rise St. James President Sharon Lavigne's house indicates her opposition to a $9.4 billion manufacturing complex proposed by Formosa Plastics and her preferred name for "Cancer ...