Lawyers and policy advocates warned in a recent webinar that Louisiana’s long-running coastal erosion lawsuits are causing serious economic harm, while attorneys for the parishes say the cases are a ...

Since 2008, around the globe, 20 million people on average have been displaced by extreme weather events every year. That is according to a 2022 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

A half-dozen Republican senators wrote a Supreme Court brief opposing Louisiana’s position. Former U.S. Attorney General ...

New Orleans — Louisiana's coast is under threat as a quarter of the state's wetlands, an area about the size of Delaware, have disappeared in the last 100 years, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Coastal erosion legal wars over the consequences of past federal government policy are ultimately pointless and ineffective. Amid rising geopolitical instability and intensifying competition over ...

Louisiana’s coastal erosion litigation, which resulted in a $744 million jury verdict against Chevron companies, ranks No. 4 on the 2026 Judicial Hellholes report, leading tort reformers to conclude ...

POINTE-AU-CHIEN, La. — Cherie Matherne looked out into Bayou Pointe au Chien, wide enough for several boats to pass through. In the distance, a stand of dead trees marked where saltwater comes and ...