+4 Environment Louisiana could make it exceedingly difficult to sue oil companies over climate change By ALEX LUBBEN | Staff writer Updated Mar 13, 2026 Louisiana lawmakers have filed a trio of bills that would protect oil and gas companies from climate change-related legal and financial risk and limit the state’s ability to reduce climate pollution.
8b4c2e29-0cc4-57b6-accc-b10768b84c03 Associated Press photo by Dita Alangkara Sep 24, 2024 Antonius Makambombu, a worker of Sumba Sustainable Solutions performs maintenance work on a solar panel on the roof of a customer's shop in La…
e90e4055-b454-564e-afa7-3bae1e856f15 Dita Alangkara - staff, AP Sep 24, 2024 Bara Kilimandang stands at the door of his house whose electricity comes from solar energy in Walatungga on Sumba Island, Indonesia, Tuesday, …
+6 Letters Clash over Louisiana’s biggest coastal project reignites in early days of Jeff Landry’s tenure By MIKE SMITH | Staff writer Feb 22, 2024 The nearly $3 billion project to address Louisiana's devastating land loss finally broke ground in August after years of planning.
+30 Environment From the bayous to the suburbs, Louisiana must ‘buy time’ to deal with rising seas By MIKE SMITH | Staff writer Dec 14, 2023 The road to Cocodrie is one Donald Boesch knows well, from his old house in Houma all the way down to the ragged and vanishing edge of Louisiana’s coast, where he used to work out of a trailer.
+15 Environment Special Report Louisiana 2050: Rising seas will upend life. Time is running out to limit the impact. By MIKE SMITH | Staff writer Sep 14, 2023 23 min to read A special report from The Times-Picayune | The Advocate examines Louisiana's perilous future in a time of rising seas and intensifying storms.
Environment Special Report Louisiana 2050: What you need to know about our vanishing coast By MIKE SMITH | Staff writer Sep 14, 2023 The newspaper’s project examining the future of south Louisiana at a time of climate change, sea level rise and intensifying storms paints a stark picture of the challenges ahead.
+3 Environment Rain slowed but won't stop Louisiana's largest wildfire as it creeps toward towns BY TRISTAN BAURICK | Staff writer Aug 28, 2023 Louisiana’s largest wildfire doubled in size over the weekend but slowed to a crawl after a short bout of rain on Sunday night.
+9 Hurricane Center Record heat could be planting hurricane time bomb in Gulf, storm experts say BY MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | Staff writer Aug 28, 2023 As the peak of hurricane season approaches -- generally considered around September 10 -- conditions in the Gulf will be one major focus of concern for storm trackers.
+2 Environment Louisiana's largest wildfire triggers evacuations in Beauregard Parish BY TRISTAN BAURICK | Staff writer Aug 23, 2023 One of the largest wildfires to burn in Louisiana in several years is sweeping through Beauregard Parish near the Texas line.