Tristan Baurick

Oil and gas companies spent more than a century pumping carbon out of Louisiana, leaving a landscape pockmarked with thousands of abandoned wells.

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worker tests an abandoned well in Lacassine National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Charles. (USFWS photo)

As Louisiana plans extensive carbon injection projects to combat climate change, thousands of abandoned oil wells pose potential leakage risks.Tristan Baurick reports for Verite News.In short: Louisiana leads the nation in planned carbon storage wells, with over 60 currently in the permit process. T...

Hurricane season presents an annual test of the New Orleans area’s collective fight-or-flight response.

One of 17 "evacuspots" located around New Orleans for city-assisted evacuations, this one at the Sanchez Center in the Lower 9th Ward at 1616 Caffin Ave. (Michael Isaac Stein/Verite)

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane season presents an annual test of the New Orleans area’s collective fight-or-flight response. In the past, emergency managers tilted toward flight, leading evacuations that moved tens of thousands of people to safer ground before storms made landfall. But as climate change throws faster and stronger hurricanes at the Gulf Coast, local […] The post Faster, stronger hurricanes outpace the New Orleans area’s evacuation plans appeared first on Louisiana Illuminator.

This fall, Nunez Community College in Chalmette will launch a two-year program that trains students for the growing wind energy sector.

In 2020, installation was completed on the first wind turbines installed in U.S. federal waters 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia. (U.S.

Scientists say they have a new culprit for the mysterious mass die-off of a hardy marsh grass that protects Louisiana’s fragile coast.

The first significant effort to protect the habitat of an exceedingly rare Gulf of Mexico whale is getting pushback from several members of Congress.