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Louisiana’s plan is to build a repository in a salt dome beneath the Gulf to permanently store highly radioactive spent fuel from commercial nuclear reactors. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
Louisiana pitches plan to store radioactive nuclear waste underneath the GulfLouisiana wants federal support for a sweeping nuclear plan that includes new reactors, data-center power and research into storing spent fuel in offshore salt domes. The state is one of five finalist...www.theadvocate.comHas Trump ever read this? The Fourteenth Amendment forbids any state to deny to any person “life, liberty or property, without due process of law” or to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” www.loc.gov/item/today-i...
Today in History - July 28The Fourteenth Amendment | Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis | The “Bonus Army”www.loc.govWhile Louisiana law allows most parishes to impose zoning restrictions in unincorporated areas, they must do so "in accordance with a comprehensive plan," which Caddo does not have. The parish can regulate those areas, just not through zoning. www.shreveportbossieradvocate.com/news/plan-to...
Plan to regulate data center work camps revealed a limit to Caddo's authority. Can they do it?A Caddo Commissioner's ordinance meant to regulate data center work camps revealed the parish has limited authority to do so without a master plan in place.www.shreveportbossieradvocate.comJust below the grassy surface, chambers have been built capable of holding 440,000 gallons of water — about two-thirds of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. www.nola.com/news/educati...
A dungeon for water? On Tulane's campus, managing stormwater goes deep.A new project unifying greenspace at Tulane is also designed to help with one of the city’s most pressing problems: managing stormwater.www.nola.comLive downwind from Waterford 3, River Bend, some other nuclear power plant? Thank Trump for this! apnews.com/article/nucl...
As Trump boosts nuclear power, regulators seek to eliminate a longstanding radiation safety practiceThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to, and that has been ...apnews.comTime for a slurry of Louisiana Public Records Law requests! ‘Gag order’: More than 100 Louisiana state employees signed NDAs with Gov. Landry’s office veritenews.org/2026/07/24/j...
‘Gag order’: More than 100 Louisiana state employees signed NDAs with Gov. Landry’s office - Verite News New OrleansMore than 100 of Landry’s employees have signed a strict confidentiality agreement with the governor’s office binding them to secrecy about what they learn on the job.veritenews.orgImpeach? “With one exception, the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election & has two Democratic-caucusing Senators (“Blue State” grants)” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for HimFederal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.www.nytimes.comPay no attention to those White men behind the boardroom curtain! apnews.com/article/eeoc...
US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 yearsThe Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...apnews.comFloodlight/Guardian analysis found La’s monitors located miles from major polluters and fail to test for some of the most dangerous chemicals. ‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic air www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A public health emergency waiting to occur’: how US industry groups spent years fighting who gets to measure toxic airAir polluters try to ensure toxic emissions happen far from monitors – but the people who live nearby still feel itwww.theguardian.comAdd this to Trump impeachment list: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their RelativesThe government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.www.nytimes.comLouisiana’s coastal marshes, already fading away, will drown faster, and high-tide flooding in coastal communities, once an occasional nuisance, will become chronic. www.nola.com/news/environ...
The Gulf’s heating faster than the world's oceans. Louisiana is at ground zero.The Gulf is in the throes of a turbulent new era that holds enormous consequences for Louisiana and the other states along its coast. “These are not theoretical concepts, one Tulane scientist said. “T...www.nola.comAdd this to Trump impeachment list: Even though such investigations are intended to determine whether the officers were in fact attacked, they can provide a crucial means of gathering evidence implicating the agents themselves. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE ConfrontationsSenior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.www.nytimes.com
