Last week’s Chevron verdict draws varied reactions
A Plaquemines Parish jury decision last week for Chevron to pay $745 million in damages has drawn fierce reactions from industry allies, legal reform...
Chevron gets hit with a $740M verdict over Louisiana’s wetlands
Oil company Chevron must pay at least $740 million to restore damage it caused to southeast Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a jury ruled on Friday...
Why a pipeline company is taking an Ascension Parish landowner to court
Houston-based Gulf South Pipeline Co. has filed a lawsuit to take over private land in Ascension Parish so it can relocate a pipeline as part of...
Judge throws out 2-year-old sale of oil and gas leases in the Gulf
A federal district judge threw out a Biden administration sale of oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf, writing that the government failed...
U.S. judge declines to block Biden-era oil well decommissioning rule
A federal judge in Louisiana has rejected a bid by three Republican-led states to block a rule adopted during Democratic President Joe Biden's administration...
Trump administration expected to drop lawsuit against Louisiana plant
President Donald Trump’s administration plans to drop a federal lawsuit against a synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a...
Environmental group sues the state over a proposed CO2 pipeline
Healthy Gulf, a New Orleans-based environmental group, has filed a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana alleging that state agencies acted outside of their...
Louisiana school next to Denka plant shuts down
A southeast Louisiana school board voted on Thursday to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school adjacent to a petrochemical facility embroiled in multiple...
Why Baton Rouge’s Gulf Valve Services is suing Baker Hughes
A longtime Baton Rouge industrial supplier is suing Baker Hughes Energy Services over an unexplained decision it says could leave it with more than...
U.S. appeals court to review suit alleging environmental racism in St. James Parish
A federal appellate court is set to hear oral arguments in a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use...
