Janet McCONNAUGHEY
The Associated Press
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Feral hog control: Invasive animals cause $2.5B damage each year
The invasive animals are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment. → Read More
Feral hog control: Invasive animals cause $2.5B damage each year
The invasive animals are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment. → Read More
Feral hog control: Invasive animals cause $2.5B damage each year
The invasive animals are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment. → Read More
Feral hog control: Invasive animals cause $2.5B damage each year
The invasive animals are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment. → Read More
Feral hog control: Invasive animals cause $2.5B damage each year
The invasive animals are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment. → Read More
U.S. government urges Louisiana to protect rare snake habitat
Louisiana pinesnakes, which produce the largest eggs and hatchlings of any U.S. snake, have been protected as threatened since 2018. → Read More
Tortoise declared not threatened despite calls from environmental groups
The Fish and Wildlife Service said small, disconnected populations remain threatened in southeastern Mississippi and bits of Louisiana and Alabama. → Read More
Boaters survive 28 hours, sharks after craft sinks in Gulf of Mexico
Two anglers whose boat sank over the weekend in the Gulf of Mexico clung to an improvised float and fought off sharks while the third swam for help. → Read More
Appeals court rules Texas courtroom can open with prayer
A deeply divided federal appeals court has ruled that a Texas judge may start the day with prayer, overturning a district court decision. → Read More
Louisiana judge tosses permits for $9.4B plastics complex
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge has thrown out air quality permits for a Taiwanese company’s planned $9.4 billion plastics complex between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, a rare win for environmentalists in a heavily industrialized stretch of the Mississippi River often referred to as “Cancer Alley." → Read More
Agency OKs nearly $190M in bids from offshore oil lease sale
The Biden administration accepted nearly $190 million Wednesday in bids from an offshore oil and gas lease sale that was held nearly a year ago but rejected by a federal judge. → Read More
Kemp's ridley sea turtle nests 1st in 75 years in Louisiana
Louisiana agencies say crews monitoring the Chandeleur Islands found tracks of females going to and from nests, and of hatchlings leaving nests. → Read More
'Living fossils': Prehistoric fish may spawn in Georgia for 1st time in 50 years
Fossils indicate that the spade-nosed fish with a bottom-mounted vacuum hose instead of jaws has existed for more than 136M years, according to scientists. → Read More
Prehistoric fish may spawn in Georgia: 1st time in 50 years
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Prehistoric fish may spawn in Georgia: 1st time in 50 years
Scientists and students embarking on a census of Georgia lake sturgeon have found three females with mature eggs — an indication the armored “living fossils” may be reproducing in that state for the first time in a half-century. → Read More
Search renewed for remains of 4 victims of 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire
The UpStairs Lounge burned on June 24, 1973, killing 31 men, including two whose mother died with them, and injuring another woman and 14 men. → Read More
Search renewed for remains of 4 victims of 1973 gay bar fire
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims, including three who were nev… → Read More
Search renewed for remains of 4 victims of 1973 gay bar fire
Nearly a half-century after arson killed 32 people in a New Orleans gay bar, the City Council has renewed the search for the remains of four victims, including three who were never identified. → Read More
18-year oil spill in Gulf: 1M gallons collected since 2019
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One million gallons of oil have been collected since April 2019 from the site of the nation’s longest oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, the Coast Guard and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday. → Read More
Biden offshore drilling proposal would allow up to 11 sales
President Joe Biden's administration on Friday proposed up to 10 oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and one off the Alaska coast over the next five years — going against the Democrat's climate promises but scaling back a Trump-era plan that called for dozens of offshore drilling opportunities including in undeveloped areas. → Read More