... Adding to the tensions surrounding the Formosa plant is the recent discovery that the proposed site sits where enslaved people lay buried. A public records request submitted to the Louisiana...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights, who is helping to represent the protesters, said critical infrastructure laws like Louisiana’s has been introduced as bills in 18 statehouses 23 times in the...
...Lawyers for 17 people arrested at pipeline protests in Louisiana say a local prosecutor has rejected felony trespass charges against them all. The decision is a major victory for free speech,...
Reporting from Washington -- President Obama said Tuesday that he would not rule out prosecuting senior Bush administration officials who provided the legal rationale for harsh interrogation...
A state judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that accused St. Charles Parish Sheriff Greg Champagne of refusing to release public records related to trips he and some of his deputies took to North...
...In December, a Louisiana judge ruled that the company had the right to seize land but had failed to properly follow legal procedures. Louisiana is one of the few states that allow oil companies to...
...The remaining cemetery takes up about 1.4 acres (0.6 hectares) of a 2,319-acre (940-hectare) site, according to the documents, made public Wednesday as attachments to a letter from RISE St. James...
...In the 1800s, the sugar cane field was a plantation. Documents show it was once owned by a man named Benjamin Winchester. Hundreds of enslaved workers were buried there. “It’s sacred ground. That’...
Join Senator Kristen Gonzalez, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, and the Not On Our Dime! Coalition for an in-person informational town hall about the Not On Our Dime! Act . The first of its kind, this...
...Meanwhile, with the pipeline industry booming, communities are organizing against numerous projects across the United States. In Louisiana, for example, multiple people were arrested under the...
