Backfilling oil and gas canals could be a more affordable and immediate solution to restore damaged wetlands.
Category: Louisiana
Posted inCOVID-19, Justice, Louisiana, Public Health, Waste
Watch our mini documentary: ‘On Strike for Everybody’
Documentary filmmaker Marta Rodriguez Maleck spent time with the City Waste Union over the last several weeks, documenting their picket line.
Posted inClimate, COVID-19, Gulf Coast, Housing, Louisiana
Too heartbreaking to leave, too expensive to stay: Louisiana coastal communities left in limbo
Disaster aid budgets are being stretched thin, leaving many people needing to elevate or sell their homes in limbo.
Posted inCOVID-19, Justice, Louisiana, Public Health, Waste
Photos: New Orleans sanitation workers strike for protections and better pay
Hoppers are demanding higher hourly wages, hazard pay, and PPE during the coronavirus pandemic.
Posted inClimate, COVID-19, Gulf Coast, Indigenous Affairs, Louisiana, Public Health
How a coastal Louisiana tribe is using generations of resilience to handle the pandemic
The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw have long practiced self-isolation and sustainable food production.
Posted inClimate, Gulf Coast, Justice, Louisiana
How Louisiana’s oil and gas industry uses prison labor
Incarcerated people are often dispatched to help clean up disaster sites or assigned to work in the industries that fuel climate change.
Posted inEnergy, Gulf Coast, Infrastructure, Louisiana
‘They do not need Louisiana’s permission’: Pipeline companies seize land rights with eminent domain
Landowners say Bayou Bridge Pipeline developers have abused a government power to take property, and offered little compensation in return.