Delaney Nolan

Thought to myself "I gotta print out an excerpt for the reading tonight" and then remembered i dont ever have to do that again because it's already printed. In a book. It's a book now. I can just...read from my book. Insane

Tulane changes syllabus, fires director over Gaza article | The Lens Tulane University, facing an investigation by the Trump administration, fired an academic director and pulled an article about polio in Gaza from an infectious disease course

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Thanks @delaneynolan.bsky.social & @thelensnola.bsky.social for covering this.

To be clear: genocides are bad for population health and influence susceptibility & transmission of infectious disease. Science is clear. International consensus: this is a genocide.

#TheLensNola🔍 Tulane University terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she’d helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected...

✍Delaney Nolan

Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/rRFbrpE

#tulaneuniversity #academicdirector #gaza

My reporting on how Tulane fired a program director and pulled an article about polio in Gaza from a public health course:

I interviewed @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social last spring. She's a brilliant academic at U of Chicago. Unreal to see ICE treat her this way

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

#BREAKING
Governor Jeff Landry submits request to send in 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to cities like New Orleans.

The governor cites a rise in crime despite New Orleans reporting a massive declines in crime since 2023.

HAPPY BAD, out October 14 in a bookstore near you 😊☹🙃😑

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

The Past, Present, and Contested Future of LNG Terminals Along the Gulf Coast SIERRA MAGAZINE | WRITING Delaney Nolan, with Julie Dermansky & Geoff McGhee

To illustrate what the rapid buildout of Gulf Coast LNG export terminals looks like, this beautifully written @sierramagazine.bsky.social story from @delaneynolan.bsky.social cleverly likens the development to an aggressive disease that advances in stages. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

I hate to say I told you so but…

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announcement from Covering Climate Now about the award-winning Sierra feature story

Will you look at that? The last feature story I edited for Sierra just won a @coveringclimatenow.org award in the fossil fuels category. Congrats to @delaneynolan.bsky.social + @geoffmcghee.bsky.social + @jsdphoto.bsky.social for uncovering the past, present and future of #LNG in the Gulf of Mexico

In St. James Parish, Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to homes, businesses | The Lens Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

After that incident, advocates and pipeline safety experts pushed for updated regulations for carbon dioxide pipelines from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA).

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Thrilled to learn my cover story for @sierramagazine.bsky.social has won a Covering Climate Now award! Thank you to Julie, Geoff, Jason, and especially to those on the Gulf Coast who spoke with me about their life under LNG's shadow.

Read the story here:
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

#TheLensNola🔍 Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

✍️ Delaney Nolan

Full Story 🔗: thelensnola.org?p=605378

With @emdashsanders.bsky.social at ExxonKnews:

Exxon is pushing through a CO2 pipeline in Cancer Alley that will run as close as 160 yards from the nearest home.

In St. James Parish, Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to homes, businesses | The Lens Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency

For @thelensnola.bsky.social, @delaneynolan.bsky.social and I dove deep into a CO2 pipeline Exxon wants to build right near communities in St James Parish, La, for carbon capture.

A CO2 rupture can be lethal, and federal safety regs have been pulled by Trump thelensnola.org/2025/09/18/i...

Went down a rabbit hole reading about journalism grifter Stephen Glass, and learned that Harper's paid him $13,000 in today's dollars for a single story, and now I'm going to lie down on the ground for a long time

Vet: *examining dog* hmm, have there been more spiders in your house recently?

Me: ((dog is haunted. he's gonna tell me the dog is haunted))

ICE detainees being housed at Louisiana’s Angola prison • Louisiana Illuminator Gov. Jeff Landry said the facility “will house the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens arrested by ICE.”

51 ICE detainees are already being housed at "Camp 57" at Louisiana’s Angola prison, with room for up to 416. @piperhutch.bsky.social reports from the state penitentiary ... lailluminator.com/2025/09/03/i...

Trump threatening to send federal troops into New Orleans is just like Napoleon's self-inflicted disaster invading Moscow, except instead of snow it's glitter. And instead of War and Peace it's live cams on Bourbon Street.

Federal troops are not ready for protests that include twerking

#TheLensNola🔍 In the wake of the recent explosion in Roseland, a flow of unidentified contaminants –– black, oily, and smelling like asphalt –– has made its way down the Tangipahoa River and is visible at least as far downriver as Ponchatoula.

✍Delaney Nolan

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HAPPY BAD | Kirkus Reviews A treatment center’s planned relocation is upended by the effects of climate change.

HAPPY BAD got a starred review from Kirkus 🥲

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Meta is sinking $10 billion into Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the grid buildout The massive data center buildout is underway, requiring massive amounts of new power and, increasingly, more fossil fuels and gas plants.

rich guys can't resist building environmental nightmares in rural Louisiana parishes

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Spooky: nearly 200 FEMA employees send signed letter to Congress today, warning that Trump's changes to FEMA are setting us up for "another national catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina"

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This is about 5 miles from my hometown

Meta is sinking $10 billion into Louisiana to build its wildest AI aspirations, setting the template for the grid buildout The massive data center buildout is underway, requiring massive amounts of new power and, increasingly, more fossil fuels and gas plants.

This is an exceptionally well written piece on $META's supercluster AI project in Louisiana, by @delaneynolan.bsky.social. Really evokes the scale of the data center to come, while also setting the rural context. Very strong prose.
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The new Meta data center in northeast Louisiana will be one of the biggest in the world when completed in 2030, and it will need TWICE THE POWER ALL OF NEW ORLEANS DOES ON A HOT SUMMER DAY. Read @delaneynolan.bsky.social on what people in this state are gonna have to pay for
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My first as the new environmental reporter for @thelensnola.bsky.social!

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