Southeast

Louisiana Regulators Are Not Keeping Up With LNG Boom, Environmentalists Say

A new report by activists fighting expansion of liquified natural gas exports says residents are getting little protection from dangerous pollutants being emitted in large amounts in southwest Louisiana.

By James Bruggers

Sidestepping a New Climate Commitment, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Greenlights a Mammoth LNG Project in Louisiana

By James Bruggers

Expedition Retraces a Legendary Explorer’s Travels Through the Once-Pristine Everglades

By Amy Green

Protesters Rally at Gas Summit in Louisiana, Where Industry Eyes a Fossil Fuel Buildout

By Dylan Baddour

Misery Wrought by Hurricane Ian Focuses Attention on Climate Records of Florida Candidates for Governor

By Amy Green

Q&A: How White Flight and Environmental Injustice Led to the Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis

By James Bruggers

These Clergy Are Bridging the Gap Between Religion and Climate

By James Bruggers

Habitat Protections for Florida’s Threatened Manatees Get an Overdue Update

By Amy Green, WMFE

New Florida Legislation Will Help the State Brace for Rising Sea Levels, but Doesn’t Address Its Underlying Cause

By Amy Green, WMFE

The Largest U.S. Grid Operator Puts 1,200 Mostly Solar Projects on Hold for Two Years

By James Bruggers

Florida Judge Asked to Recognize the Legal Rights of Five Waterways Outside Orlando

By Katie Surma

The Decline of Kentucky’s Coal Industry Has Produced Hundreds of Safety and Environmental Violations at Strip Mines

By James Bruggers

With Biden in Europe Promising to Expedite U.S. LNG Exports, Environmentalists on the Gulf Coast Say, Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Battered and Flooded by Increasingly Severe Weather, Kentucky and Tennessee Have a Big Difference in Forecasting

By James Bruggers, Caroline Eggers

Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes an Unprecedented $1.1 Billion for Everglades Revitalization

By Amy Green, WMFE

In Georgia, Bloated Costs Take Over a Nuclear Power Plant and a Fight Looms Over Who Pays

By James Bruggers

Global Warming Can Set The Stage for Deadly Tornadoes

By Bob Berwyn

Coal Powered the Industrial Revolution. It Left Behind an ‘Absolutely Massive’ Environmental Catastrophe

By James Bruggers

Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Includes Money for Recycling, But the Debate Over Plastics Rages On

By James Bruggers