(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the Aug. 19, 2013 edition.)

Louisiana, a major exporter of coal from other states, could ship far more of that fossil fuel once the Panama Canal is widened and deepened in 2015. Next year, RAM Terminals, LLC hopes to...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the August 5, 2013 edition.)

In community meetings last winter and spring, New Orleans residents considered options for the Claiborne expressway, a 1960s-era project that separated mostly African American neighborhoods in Treme, the Seventh Ward and vicinity. Under its Livable Claiborne...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the July 29, 2013 edition.)

Early last week, U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan in New Orleans paved the way for a lawsuit to continue against Taylor Energy Co. for oil leaking eleven miles off the southeast Louisiana coast since 2004....

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the July 22, 2013 edition.)

On a drive through Baton Rouge on Interstate 110, you've probably seen the sprawling ExxonMobil complex, containing a 502,000 barrel-per-day refinery and a chemical plant next to the Mississippi River. The refinery is the...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the July 15, 2013 edition.)

Government agencies and neighbors are keeping an eye on Baton Rouge's ExxonMobil complex, located next to the Mississippi River on Scenic Highway north of the Governor's Mansion. Neighbors want the authorities and the plant to do...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the July 8, 2013 edition.)

The lower section of LA Highway 1, which runs from Grand Isle in south Louisiana up to Shreveport, is "at-risk infrastructure" in Lafourche and Jefferson Parishes, LA 1 Coalition executive director Henri Boulet said...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the June 24, 2013 edition.)

Bus service between New Orleans and Baton Rouge on LA Swift--which charges only $5 one way for the 80-mile trip--will be extended for another month to July's end while a possible takeover by local...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the June 17, 2013 edition.)

Theresa Dardar, a member of the Pointe-au-Chien tribe in Terrebonne Parish, is down to the last bag of shrimp she froze in late April 2010 after the BP spill. The state opened the shrimp season early...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the June 10, 2013 issue.)

Last week, New Orleans reopened the John P. Lyons Memorial Center in the Irish Channel with money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, city bonds, Chevron and the National Football League Foundation. The structure...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the June 3, 2013 edition.)

Scientists and engineers questioned the cost and longevity of sand berms when they were built in 2010 to block BP oil from Louisiana's coast. Recently, however, several berms in Barataria Basin are being fortified...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 20, 2013 edition.)

New Orleans resident Barbara Risin has lived in the first block of Jackson Avenue near the levee-protected Mississippi River since the 1940s. Sitting outside of her wood frame home between Tchoupitoulas and Rousseau Streets...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 13, 2013 edition.)

Ground breaking for Magnolia Marketplace--a two-story mall on nearly seven acres off South Claiborne Ave. at Toledano St. in New Orleans--is slated for the third quarter of this year and a bit later than...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 6, 2013 edition.)

This spring, thirteen Crescent City residents completed a year of classes and hands-on training in streetcar maintenance, funded by the Federal Transit Administration and run by the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority and Delgado...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the April 29, 2013 edition.)

Houston-based Halliburton Co. is in talks to settle private claims related to the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion three years ago, company officers said when they released quarterly earnings last Monday. The Gulf spill trial's first phase...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the April 22, 2013 edition.)

Last week, BP called its final witnesses in the first phase of the Gulf spill trial that began in New Orleans on Feb. 25. The U.K. company has tried to shift blame to rig-owner...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the April 15, 2013 edition.)

Last week, BP executives and others testifying at U.S. District Court in New Orleans said the company was safety conscious when it drilled the Macondo well in the Gulf. Attorneys for the U.K. firm called their...

(This article was published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the April 8, 2013 edition.)

At the spill trial last week, Halliburton staffer Jesse Gagliano said BP rejected several of his recommendations, jeopardizing the cement pumped at the Macondo well in April 2010. He testified in the trial that...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the April 1, 2013 edition.)

At the Gulf spill trial last week, a Transocean executive and a company captain testified that the Swiss-based giant hadn't ignored maintenance on its Deepwater Horizon rig, countering what another witness said the week before. In...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the March 24, 2013 edition.)

In the fourth week of the 2010 Gulf spill trial, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier dropped claims Wednesday against contractors M-I LLC and Cameron International while Halliburton came under increased scrutiny for concealing cement at its...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the March 18, 2013 edition.)

Week three of the Gulf oil spill trial under Judge Carl Barbier in U.S. District Court in New Orleans focused in part on Halliburton's role in the April 20, 2010 disaster. And outside experts...