 BY DEANNA B. NARVESON | Staff writer Gov. Jeff Landry appeared at one of the country's most controversial chemical plants on Monday to announce his administration's legal challenge to a new federal rule aimed at reducing cancer risks, but which he says will unnecessarily hurt jobs and the economy. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule, announced by President Joe Biden's administration in April, would affect emissions from plants up and down the Mississippi River and elsewhere in the state. It would cut emissions of six likely human carcinogens from 51 chemical plants and refineries in Louisiana. Read the full story.
A man, woman and an 8-year-old child were found dead at their Livingston Parish home on Monday morning in what the Sheriff's Department believes to be a murder suicide. Read the latest.
Louisiana Land Trust, which was a part of the largest disaster recovery plan in U.S. history, filed an error-riddled fiscal report to the state’s Legislative Auditor, its fourth misstated report in as many years. Read the full story.
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