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Entergy Louisiana wants to build a floating $441 million natural gas power plant at the mouth of  Bayou Lafourche.

Rising sea levels threatening Louisiana’s low-lying coastal communities. Intensifying hurricanes delivering more frequent billion-dollar disasters. Prolonged drought disrupting the state’s agriculture industry. New rounds of extreme heat that strain the

Entergy’s new power plant was supposed to help New Orleans East recover after a storm like Hurricane Ida. When it didn’t, residents started pushing for cleaner, safer energy.

With a Republican takeover of the U.S. House expected on Election Day, public interest groups in Louisiana are assessing if and how the power shift will affect their efforts.

Public interest groups in the state are assessing whether a power shift will affect their efforts.

NARRAGANSETT, RHODE ISLAND — Last month some 50 south Louisianans gathered in this small, New England port town, preparing for a breezy day trip through the Atlantic waters. The mood was light and there was an air of excitement — with some jokes about the “chilly” 70-degree weather compared to the triple digits back home as they ferried toward the Block Island Wind Farm.

Entergy New Orleans could have avoided leaving swaths of the city in the dark on the freezing night of Mardi Gras 2021, the City Council's utility advisors said, but the results of their six-month investigation make a big fine unlikely. In a final report on the outage released Monday, the advisors said that preventable computer errors at Entergy knocked out power to four times

Entergy’s new power plant was supposed to help New Orleans East recover after a storm like Hurricane Ida. When it didn’t, residents started pushing for cleaner, safer energy.

Profile cases of police brutality, with law enforcement facing accountability for their actions. on wednesday, three police officers and two paramedics were charged in the death of elijah mcclain. this is a 23-year-old young man who was walking home from a store in aurora, colorado, when police placed him in a chokehold and injected him with the sedative ketamine in august of 2019. meanwhile, in minnesota, kim potter, the police officer who shot donte wright during a traffic stop in april, claim...

All while promising the plant would jump start the city after a hurricane. so the mothers worry they will die from heat stroke and cooling their kids in cars and folks spending their nights by candlelight, they want answers and help. joining me now is logan atkinson burke, the executive director at the alliance for affordable energy. logan, thanks so much for being here. its a nightmare to watch these people go through this. ive watched interviews with mothers in the car with their kids. how exa...