Delaney Dryfoos

#TheLensNola🔍 The additional six-month deployment will involve approximately 120 National Guard members—down from the 350 who were working during Carnival.

✍ Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator

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#nationalguard #neworleans #deployment

Fifteen years of stories that matter. Fifteen years of accountability, transparency, and community-driven reporting. Come celebrate this milestone with us and be part of the next chapter of journalism that serves New Orleans💛

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#TheLens15 #15yearanniversary #TheLensNola

#TheLensNola🔍 The storm-prone city is making its local utility design a $28 million incentive program to get hundreds more backup batteries into homes and businesses.

✍ Julian Spector, Canary Media

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#powerplant #entergyneworleans #batteryincentives

#OPINION As more gas moves hundreds of miles by pipeline to an increased number of LNG export terminals licensed by the Trump administration, more pipeline leaks and explosions seem inevitable.

✍ Roishetta Ozane and Lauren Parker

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#LNG #pipelineexplosion #louisiana

#TheLensNola🔍 Despite the stringent abortion ban, AG Liz Murrill said almost 1,000 abortions per month are administered in Louisiana through medication obtained from out of state.

✍ Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator

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#trumpagency #abortiondrugs #FDA

#OPINION “We are not just statistics,” the writers emphasize. “We are families living in the shadows of corporate greed, forced to inhale the very toxins that threaten our lives.”

✍ Roishetta Ozane and Jasmine Gil

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#cameronparish #LNG #gaspipelineexplosion #TheLens

#TheLensNola🔍 Louisiana is among the worst-performing states in maternal and infant health outcomes. Now the city health department offers home visits in those crucial first months.

✍ Rosemary Westwood, WWNO

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#maternalhealth #infanthealth #louisiana

#TheLensNola🔍 Like New Orleans, many small cities and towns are grappling with aging infrastructure and frequent boil-water notices.

✍ Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator, Lucas Dufalla, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Phillip Powell, Arkansas Times

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#TheLensNola🔍 Lawyers for residents say that zoning that concentrates pollution in Black districts is a violation of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.

✍ Adam Mahoney, Capital B

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#canceralley #pollution #environmentalracism #stjamesparish

96 trees to be removed, 98 replanted: MBTA moves forward with Green Line accessibility project - Brookline.News An effort to save a tree near Brandon Hall which is home to an owl illustrates the push and pull of the MBTA's Green Line accessibility improvements in Brookline.

The MBTA was planning to remove a Red Oak near Brandon Hall Station as part of its accessibility improvements.

After Brookline residents pointed out that it's home to an Eastern screen owl, the tree will be spared.

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#TheLensNola🔍 In St. Bernard Parish, fishing deckhands fear death and detention amid regular immigration sweeps - not by ICE, but the Coast Guard. Critics say the Trump administration is undermining the Coast Guard’s other missions...

✍ Delaney Nolan

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#TheLensNola🔍 Carbon capture hasn’t delivered major climate benefits — and the plants would still emit thousands of tons of pollution.

✍ Ames Alexander, Floodlight

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#blueammonia #carboncapture #CFIndustries

#TheLensNola🔍 A grassroots environmental group says this week’s explosion of a natural gas pipeline in Cameron Parish is why its community air monitoring mission needs to be expanded.

✍ Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator

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#cameronparish #pipelineexplosion #airmonitoring

#OPINION The U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the central provision that has protected minority voters from discriminatory maps and election systems for 60 years.

✍ Adam Ganucheau, Deep South Today

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22 Right Whale Calves Born So Far This Winter - The Provincetown Independent PROVINCETOWN — An aerial survey of Cape Cod Bay conducted by the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) on Jan. 10 found 33 North Atlantic right whales here — the highest […]

Over more than 40 years of research, the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown has established that Cape Cod Bay is the greatest known aggregation point for the roughly 380 members of the endangered North Atlantic right whale species.
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#OPINION The Justice Department is weaponizing a law intended to protect those seeking abortions to punish reporters covering anti-ICE activism.

✍ David Bralow, The Intercept

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#donlemon #georgiafort #faceact

#TheLensNola🔍 Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children.

✍ Shefali Luthra, The 19th

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#ICE #louisiana #deportation

Global Research on Seagrass Finds a Home in Provincetown - The Provincetown Independent PROVINCETOWN — On a foggy day in late September 2023, Agnes Mittermayr, a scientist at the Center for Coastal Studies, received a call from the Jackson Estuarine Laboratory at the […]

A hefty collection of seagrass specimens from 22 years of global sampling found a new home at the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Mass. With more than 20,000 specimens from 42 locations, the collection is the largest in the world. provincetownindependent.org/featured/202...

Town planning to renovate Griggs Park next year - Brookline.News Griggs Park will be renovated in 2027 and outfitted with new playground equipment, which the town says is focused on creating a universally accessible green space that celebrates the park’s natural ch...

Griggs Park is getting new playground equipment, entrances and paths as part of a renovation set to take place in 2027.

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#TheLensNola🔍 As the state limits sharing of independent data, the Trump administration is delaying new testing requirements for dozens of chemical plants around the Mississippi River Basin.

✍ Illan Ireland, Mississippi Free Press

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#TheLensNola🔍 New Orleans churches and community centers are being outfitted with backup and solar power to create a microgrid for residents during the city’s frequent outages. But that’s not the only value they offer.

✍ Delaney Dryfoos

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#TheLensNola🔍 Lawyers for the oil giant argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that the matter belongs in federal court. But the heavily Republican state responded that a $744.6 million jury award in state court should stand.

✍ Lee Hedgepeth, Inside Climate News

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#TheLensNola🔍 Agents with the FBI and the EPA's Criminal Investigation Division conducted a search of the facility in November.

✍ Wesley Muller. Louisiana Illuminator

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#FBI #smittysupplyexplosion #investigation

#TheLensNola🔍 Elyse Stevens was a primary physician at the University Medical Center New Orleans, which runs an integrated health clinic specialized in treating patients with substance use disorders.

✍ Aneri Pattani, KFF Health News

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#TheLensNola🔍 Federal and state officials have sued the company behind the blast, but Roseland, Louisiana, residents say the case won’t bring relief to their town.

✍ Adam Mahoney, Capital B

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#oilspill #roselandlouisiana #smittyssupply

#TheLensNola🔍 The environmental groups say that the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy “violated its constitutional, statutory and regulatory duties” with its hasty reissue of a construction permit.

✍ Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator

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#TheLensNola🔍 In the sky above Bourbon Street, a new memorial pays homage to those killed in the New Year’s Day truck attack. The community’s ongoing tributes have helped with healing, one victim’s sister said.

✍ Drew Hawkins, Gulf States Newsroom

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#TheLensNola🔍 Landry pays his respects to the 14 Bourbon Street victims and addresses ICE presence in the city.

✍ Katy Reckdahl with photos by Gus Bennett

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#governorlandry #bourbonstreet #neworleans

In June, the state of Louisiana passed a law codifying gas as “green energy.” Yes, gas.

✍ Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews, and Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens

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#gasoline #greenenergy #Louisiana #bestof2025 #TheLensNola🔍

ExxonKnews: The year in review This year, ExxonKnews reported on Big Oil targeting its critics, pushing false solutions, and encouraging political allies to help the industry escape accountability.

Some of my stories this year included:
- how the gas industry pushed state bills to redefine gas as “clean” energy
- how the DOE partnered with plastics lobbyists
- how Exxon is building CO2 pipelines through communities after Trump withdrew safety regs

More: www.exxonknews.org/p/exxonknews...