Delaney Dryfoos

#TheLensNola🔍 Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012.

✍ Amanda Watford, Stateline

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#deathpenalty #nitrogengasexecution #louisiana

#TheLensNola🔍 The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University.

✍Hannah Richter, Sierra Magazine

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#louisianatechuniversity #ecologist #federalgrant

#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry said his health department will find the money to cover $147 million in benefits next month for the elderly, disabled and children.

✍ Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana Illuminator

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#SNAPBenefits #foodstamps #neworleans

Town pushes back a key climate change goal by 10 years - Brookline.News Zero emissions by 2040? Not happening. 2050 is the town's new goal.

Zero emissions by 2040? Not happening in Brookline, the town's leaders and climate experts acknowledge. They've set a new goal of 2050.

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#TheLensNola🔍 Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.

✍Terry L. Jones, Floodlight

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#airpollution #chemicalplants #environemtalnews

#TheLensNola🔍 New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

✍Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews

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#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry scraps sediment diversion planned for Breton Sound marsh.

✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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#coastalrestorationproject #bretonsoundmarsh #environmentalnews

Brookline's second mini-forest was just planted at the Ridley School. Here's why these native seedlings matter. - Brookline.News Community volunteers placed hundreds of native tree and shrub saplings in a miniature forest to increase biodiversity and fight climate change.

On Sunday, volunteers placed hundreds of native tree and shrub saplings in a miniature forest outside the Ridley School, a project aimed at increasing biodiversity and fighting climate change. It's Brookline's second mini-forest, inspired by a Japanese botanist.

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#OPINION While Gov. Jeff Landry was quick to denounce the speed of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-led clean-up, he's silent in holding Smitty's Supply itself accountable for the explosion...

✍Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator

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#TheLensNola🔍 "Intentionally or not, Trump is adding weight to this burden that women are already carrying as family health managers."

✍Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th

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#childhoodvaccines #vaccinedelay #presidenttrump

#TheLensNola🔍 Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals.

✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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#smittyssupply #hazardouspollution #tangipohoaparish

#TheLensNola🔍 Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises.

✍Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon | Floodlight

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#climaterelocation #isledejeancharles #environmentalnews

#TheLensNola🔍 A new Tulane University study on brown anoles could offer a better understanding of lead poisoning...

✍Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator

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#brownanolelizards #tulaneuniversity #leadpoisoning

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...

MBTA, town officials outline Beacon Street tree removal plan for first phase of Green Line accessibility project - Brookline.News The MBTA is planning to remove nine trees on Beacon Street near the C Branch stations at Tappan Street and Englewood Ave as the first phase of its accessibility updates this fall.

The MBTA is planning to remove nine trees from Beacon Street near the Englewood Ave and Tappan Street stations, including the pictured large pin oak, during the first phase of its work on Green Line accessibility improvements.

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#TheLensNola🔍 A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison.

✍️ Lawson Strickland

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Brookline.News Podcast Episode 5: Trouble in Brookline's cannabis industry, toxic chemicals at Pierce School and a love letter to empanadas - Brookline.News On the fifth episode of the Brookline.News podcast, Brookline.News editor Sam Mintz and Brookline Interactive Group executive director Jessica Smyser discuss the latest news, including a deep dive on ...

Check out the latest episode of the Brookline.News podcast to hear what's behind the headlines on Brookline's cannabis industry, toxic chemicals at the Pierce School, and a new restaurant which calls itself a love letter to the empanada.

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Low levels of toxic chemicals known as PCBs found in soil during Pierce School rebuild - Brookline.News Low levels of the toxic chemical were found in shallow soils between Town Hall and the historic Pierce School Building, but not on school grounds, according to the project's manager.

Low levels of toxic chemicals known as PCBs were found in soil near the Pierce School during the rebuilding project, in an area between the historic school building and Town Hall.

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#TheLensNola🔍 Inspired by the floodwaters after Katrina and the birth of his son, photographer Gus Bennett created a new photography series, Organic Watermarks

✍️ Gus Bennett

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#OrganicWatermarks #photography #katrina20yearslater

#TheLensNola🔍 Within the Orleans Parish Prison jail, thousands of people remained trapped inside as the floodwaters rose higher by the hour.

✍Bernard Smith

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#TheLensNola🔍 The global music star, whose hometown of New Orleans was devastated in 2005 by the hurricane and subsequent levee engineering failures, says ‘people power’ can change the world.

✍Mark Hertsgaard, The Guardian

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#TheLensNola🔍 Even as New Orleans marks the 20-year anniversary of one of the federal government’s greatest failures, close observers warn that recent FEMA changes could set the stage for history to repeat itself.

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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#TheLensNola🔍 For more than a century, the St. Claude Avenue lift bridge over the Industrial Canal has withstood life-altering floods and record-breaking hurricanes. Last November, it became a national historic landmark.

✍️ Tess Riley

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#TheLensNola🔍 A permanent fix is still on the way for corrosion found in the massive lakefront pumps – and there’s likely more corrosion on the underground steel supporting certain floodwalls...

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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A year in, town's sustainability division helps bring $2 million in grants, plans for the future - Brookline.News A year ago, Brookline's sustainability division was funded in part by an anonymous donor. What has it accomplished since?

The town's new sustainability division, funded to start by an anonymous donor, has been working for a year. Here's what its staff have been up to:

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Air pollution questions linger over Alabo Street Wharf | The Lens Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application.

UPDATE: Sunrise Foods withdraws air permit application, saying that less grain will be handled at the facility. Initial operations, set to start this fall, will be modest enough to reduce projected emissions, according to a company statement. @thelensnola.bsky.social
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Let’s acknowledge the Alabo Wharf’s place in history | The Lens In a lawsuit about a slaughterhouse that once stood at the Alabo site, the U.S. Supreme Court first interpreted the 14th Amendment, which later became pivotal in civil rights rulings, and led to four ...

FROM @thelensnola.bsky.social OPINION: The embattled Alabo Street Wharf warehouse in the Lower 9th Ward is a little-known African American history site, tied to the U.S. Supreme Court’s first decision based on the 14th Amendment, later used in civil rights cases.
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Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

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Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says Figure down from 4% in April, suggesting Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza Strip

By me: Israel’s destruction of Gaza has left starving Palestinians with access to only 1.5% of cropland that is accessible & suitable for cultivation, according to @fao.org. Before the genocide, Gaza was a thriving agricultural hub
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FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recruitment.

🚨SCOOP:
A "select" number of FEMA probationary employees have been involuntarily reassigned to ICE, effective immediately, to "assist with hiring and vetting." If the employees don't report to ICE within seven days, they are threatened with termination.
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