My profile for @nolanews.bsky.social of John Carmouche, the attorney who just won a $745 million verdict against Chevron:

www.nola.com/news/environ...

The company, Freeport-McMoRan, cut a very big check to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in 2009 to help it wipe out the tilapia. They tried to do exactly that, with a potent fish-killing chemical that a scientist described as taking a "bazooka" to the waterways.

Sometime before Katrina, one of the world's biggest mining companies stocked a fishing pond on its corporate lodge in Plaquemines Parish with tilapia, a non-native fish that can gobble up everything and take over ecosystems.

The historic $745 million verdict against Chevron in Plaquemines "is one of the largest … ever won by a local government for environmental damage — not only in the United States, but globally,” says @michaelgerrard.bsky.social. But the verdict is just the beginning of a much larger fight.

here’s another gator i saw recently

here’s a gator i saw yesterday

My story with @nysfocus is on the front page of the @timesunion today:

Thanks @SABEW for recognizing our Harm's Way series! Exciting to be included on this list of extremely good reporters and stories

a really nice write up from @Poynter on our project