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A flare burns at Venture Global LNG in Cameron, La., April 21, 2022. Louisiana lost more than $82 million worth of natural gas in 2019 due to leaks, venting or flaring at production sites according to a study released Thursday, April 13, 2023, by an environmental group and government watchdog organizations. The Environmental Defense Fund’s report said state fossil fuel producers wasted more than 27 billion cubic feet of gas in 2019. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine, File)

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Environmentalists: Wasted gas hurts climate, state revenue
By KEVIN MCGILL - Associated Press
Thu,04/13/23-5:31PM , 110 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana lost more than $82 million worth of natural gas in 2019 due to leaks, venting or flaring at production sites, according to a study released Thursday by an environmental group and government watchdog organizations.
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State Reps. Jennifer Canady, left, and Jenna Persons-Mulicka embrace after the Republican-dominated Legislature on approved a ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla. (Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via AP)

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DeSantis signs Florida GOP's 6-week abortion ban into law
By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press
Thu,04/13/23-3:38PM , 114 Reads
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill approved by the Republican-dominated Florida Legislature to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
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This image made from video shows the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court in New Orleans, Monday, April 10, 2023. As public frustration over Louisiana’s violent crime grows, Republican gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Jeff Landry is backing legislation that would make certain confidential juvenile court records public in three of the state’s parishes, all of which are predominately Black. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)

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Youth records in mainly Black Louisiana areas may go public
By SARA CLINE - Associated Press
Thu,04/13/23-9:00AM , 70 Reads
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As public frustration over Louisiana’s violent crime grows, Republican gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Jeff Landry is backing legislation that would make certain confidential juvenile court records public in three of the state’s parishes, all of which are predominately Black.
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AP correspondent Donna Warder reports on the legal battle over an abortion pill.

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DOJ to ask Supreme Court to put abortion pill limits on hold
By PAUL J. WEBER AND JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press
Thu,04/13/23-1:15AM , 403 Reads
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Justice Department said Thursday that it will again go to the Supreme Court over abortion after a lower court ruling allowed the abortion pill mifepristone to remain available in the U.S.
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