The proposed rules reducing emissions across the country would not apply to many of Louisiana’s chemical plants. These facilities release tons of dangerous, cancer-causing chemicals like ethylene oxide, and more plants are on the way.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will start releasing polluted water from Lake Okeechobee to Florida’s coasts in pulses on Friday in an effort to avoid a possible repeat of 2016’s disastrous algal blooms.
Even the pariah nation of Syria is signing on the Paris Agreement, leaving the U.S. alone on the world stage as the only country refusing to abide the accords on curbing climate change. It's a disgraceful position for the planet's leading nation.
The disaster-relief agency, under fire after Hurricane Maria, won’t release the plan, even as a comparable document for Hawaii remains public. -Justin Elliott and Decca Muldowney, ProPublica
