Oily water and spilled petrochemicals from the Smitty’s Supply explosion have been handled at three different sites, and state officials have granted an emergency request to bring some of it a Jefferson Parish landfill.
Indigenous and political activists broke through security lines at the UN’s COP30 climate talks in Belém, Brazil, shouting “our forests are not for sale” as they protested deforestation and oil exploration in the Amazon.
Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades, with officials warning that Tehran — a city of more than 10 million — may soon be uninhabitable if the drought gripping the country continues.
