Some of my stories this year included: - how the gas industry pushed state bills to redefine gas as “clean” energy - how the DOE partnered with plastics lobbyists - how Exxon is building CO2 pipelines through communities after Trump withdrew safety regs More: www.exxonknews.org/p/exxonknews...

#TheLensNola🔍 Leaked emails show the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools landed a meeting with the Labor Secretary, who assuaged short-term concerns. Long-run worries remain though. ✍ Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/HWFSJc8 #charterschool #departmentoflabor #neworleans

Led to expect an “exit bonus,” migrants were left empty-handed in their home countries. ✍️ Delaney Nolan Full Story: thelensnola.org/2025/12/18/t... #ICE #selfdeportation #exitbonus

Breaking news: Authorities in Rhode Island say Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in shootings in Brookline on Monday and Brown University on Saturday, is dead. This is a developing story, and we will update our article as new information is made available. brookline.news/suspect-in-b...

The Recreation Department is planning to increase the prices for some its lessons, sports and camps. Read about why: brookline.news/parks-and-re...

Nuno Loureiro, killed in a shooting in Brookline this week, once attended a local walkout advocating for tougher gun laws after the shooting in Uvalde. He was moved to tears, said a friend, and commented on the differences in gun violence in the US and Portugal. brookline.news/as-homicide-...

#TheLensNola🔍 A survey in photo and text, of what New Orleanians are thinking about the local immigrants threatened by Catahoula Crunch. ✍ Gus Bennett Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/Y1XGHVt #ICE #immigrantsheltering #neworleans

#TheLensNola🔍 Recent legal changes, a Trump-friendly governor and a large immigration detention infrastructure could make the New Orleans crackdown easier for the administration. ✍ Jamiles Lartey, The Marshall Project Read More 👀: buff.ly/pOQDuUO

#OPINION Air Products wants to off-load its risk for a proposed carbon-capture project in Lake Maurepas, which the writers see as too risky for the state of Louisiana. ✍Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré and Livingston Parish Councilman Dean Coates Full Story: buff.ly/4pUkghg

#TheLensNola🔍 Louisiana Dept. of Conservation and Energy issues another permit after state judge ruled the original shouldn’t have been granted. ✍ Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator Read full story: buff.ly/XdkRIrJ #cameronparish #commonwealthlng #neworleansnews

An attorney for the town will appear in court today to defend the town's decision to close Hall's Pond Sanctuary a few weeks before construction is set to start on a boardwalk. A resident has sued, seeking an injunction to reopen the area until early December. brookline.news/resident-tak...

#TheLensNola🔍 Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch. ✍ Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator Read full story: buff.ly/rv8dkR3 #oilwaste #smittyssupply #jeffersonparish

#TheLensNola🔍 Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012. ✍ Amanda Watford, Stateline Read More: buff.ly/90CkgLl #deathpenalty #nitrogengasexecution #louisiana

#TheLensNola🔍 The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University. ✍Hannah Richter, Sierra Magazine Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/IPaDPcj #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 Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/xA28ULa #SNAPBenefits #foodstamps #neworleans

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

#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 Full Story🗞: buff.ly/CgaAQoV #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 Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/EDExy3K

#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry scraps sediment diversion planned for Breton Sound marsh. ✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/m81AWVA #coastalrestorationproject #bretonsoundmarsh #environmentalnews

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. brookline.news/brooklines-s...

#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 Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/OFVgJMP

#TheLensNola🔍 "Intentionally or not, Trump is adding weight to this burden that women are already carrying as family health managers." ✍Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/21tPjZG #childhoodvaccines #vaccinedelay #presidenttrump

#TheLensNola🔍 Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals. ✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/MOpgoVt #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 Read Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/s53G5QR #climaterelocation #isledejeancharles #environmentalnews

#TheLensNola🔍 A new Tulane University study on brown anoles could offer a better understanding of lead poisoning... ✍Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator Read More🗞: buff.ly/XoHI5IQ #brownanolelizards #tulaneuniversity #leadpoisoning

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...

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. brookline.news/mbta-town-of...

#TheLensNola🔍 A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison. ✍️ Lawson Strickland Read More: buff.ly/oTaRzxf

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. brookline.news/brookline-ne...

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. brookline.news/low-levels-o...

#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 Full Story 🔗:https://buff.ly/mov8P6u #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 Read More 👀: buff.ly/79jUJn2

#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 Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/bS6pNsi

#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 Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/csGLKGI

#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 Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/QLc5Gic

#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 Full Story 🔗: buff.ly/FSWLHR0

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: brookline.news/a-year-in-to...

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 thelensnola.org/2025/07/02/a...

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. thelensnola.org/2025/08/12/l...

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 Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

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 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🚨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. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

Listen here: thelensnola.org/2025/08/01/b... #TheLensNola🔍

EXCLUSIVE: Southeastern Louisiana University has removed a scientist from a research team that exposed the presence and sources of toxic metals in Lake Maurepas. @wesmuller.bsky.social reports lailluminator.com/2025/07/31/s...

Exxon marketed this Louisiana carbon capture project as a climate solution. Now, it will use captured CO2 to drill for more oil. The announcement came days after Trump expanded public subsidies for enhanced oil recovery through carbon capture. www.exxonknews.org/p/exxons-new...

Are you a trans journalist trying to change your byline? You should check out this guide I have been writing for the last few months for @theopennotebook.bsky.social, which is full of tips/tricks from me and many other trans journalists. www.theopennotebook.com/2025/07/22/h...

In an essay for VF, Rümeysa Öztürk details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent being held in a South Louisiana ICE detention center: “Even God cannot hear us here,” said one woman.

Glad to see this story getting attention — first reported by me and @delaneydryfoos.bsky.social in @thelensnola.bsky.social and ExxonKnews here thelensnola.org/2025/06/18/l...

Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application. As of July 7, the agency has not opened online public comments or set a hearing date. @thelensnola.bsky.social thelensnola.org/2025/07/02/a...

#TheLensNola🔍 Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application. ✍ @delaneydryfoos.bsky.social Click the 🔗 for the full article! buff.ly/URG9lxX