Alex Lubben
@alexlubben.bsky.social
Environment reporter with The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. Before that: VICE News, other places.
Yep, added a link in the second paragraph. thanks for pointing out that it was missing
June 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Yep, added a link in the second paragraph. thanks for pointing out that it was missing
Here you go -- apologies for not including, it was under embargo while I was writing: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Vertical land motion in Greater New Orleans: Insights into underlying drivers and impact to flood protection infrastructure
Satellites provide perspective on the sustainability of New Orleans.
www.science.org
June 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Here you go -- apologies for not including, it was under embargo while I was writing: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
That scientist, Marty O'Connell at UNO, had a hunch that the fish might not have been wiped out.
He went back down there last year, threw in a net, pulled up a bunch of tilapia. They're back.
Full story here:
www.nola.com/news/environ...
He went back down there last year, threw in a net, pulled up a bunch of tilapia. They're back.
Full story here:
www.nola.com/news/environ...
An invasive fish in Louisiana waters was thought wiped out. It's back, and biologists are worried.
Invasive and hungry, these farmed fish escaped from a corporate retreat near Port Sulphur, La., nearly 20 years ago. Despite a massive eradication effort in 2009, scientists have made an unsettling di...
www.nola.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
That scientist, Marty O'Connell at UNO, had a hunch that the fish might not have been wiped out.
He went back down there last year, threw in a net, pulled up a bunch of tilapia. They're back.
Full story here:
www.nola.com/news/environ...
He went back down there last year, threw in a net, pulled up a bunch of tilapia. They're back.
Full story here:
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.
June 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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.
There are at least 40 lawsuits pending about the same issues. How this case pans out will affect those other lawsuits, and could result in tens of billions in damages.
Chevron says it's going to fight this all the way to SCOTUS.
Story: www.nola.com/news/environ...
Chevron says it's going to fight this all the way to SCOTUS.
Story: www.nola.com/news/environ...
April 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
There are at least 40 lawsuits pending about the same issues. How this case pans out will affect those other lawsuits, and could result in tens of billions in damages.
Chevron says it's going to fight this all the way to SCOTUS.
Story: www.nola.com/news/environ...
Chevron says it's going to fight this all the way to SCOTUS.
Story: www.nola.com/news/environ...
I wrote about where the Corps' plan currently stands here: www.nola.com/news/environ...
Plan to replace New Orleans' Industrial Canal lock being revived. Neighbors are pushing back.
The project has led neighbors to put signs in their yards that read “The Canal Will Kill.”
www.nola.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I wrote about where the Corps' plan currently stands here: www.nola.com/news/environ...