Governor Landry announces the state is very close to settling lawsuits against ConocoPhillips that allege the energy company is responsible for damaging the state’s coastal marshes, leading to land loss. Landry says coastal litigation has held up progress that the coast desperately needs.
While earthquakes in Louisiana aren’t all that unusual, yesterday morning’s magnitude 4.9 tremor in Red River Parish certainly was. Cynthia Ebinger (uh-BING-er) with the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering says earthquakes are caused by the release of stresses that have built up in the rocks that cause parts of the rocks to fail. She says the oil and gas industry may play at least a partial role.
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Meta pledges not to pass the costs of its data centers onto the communities, including in Richland Parish. Andre Champagne reports.
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Up, up and away – no, we’re not talking about a beautiful balloon, we’re talking about gas prices in Louisiana. The average price of regular unleaded is now $2.95 a gallon – that’s up another nickel overnight, up 40 cents from a week ago and 45 cents from this time last month.