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Freelance environmental reporter @brooklinenews.bsky.social | Partnerships editor @thelensnola.bsky.social | Science reporter in the greater Boston area | she/they🌈 | www.delaneydryfoos.com
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#TheLensNola🔍 Forty-one people have been executed so far this year, the highest number since 2012.

✍ Amanda Watford, Stateline

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#deathpenalty #nitrogengasexecution #louisiana
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 The federal trawling of grants for misaligned priorities has brought in bycatch at Louisiana Tech University.

✍Hannah Richter, Sierra Magazine

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#louisianatechuniversity #ecologist #federalgrant
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry said his health department will find the money to cover $147 million in benefits next month for the elderly, disabled and children.

✍ Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana Illuminator

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#SNAPBenefits #foodstamps #neworleans
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Zero emissions by 2040? Not happening in Brookline, the town's leaders and climate experts acknowledge. They've set a new goal of 2050.

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Town pushes back a key climate change goal by 10 years - Brookline.News
Zero emissions by 2040? Not happening. 2050 is the town's new goal.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.

✍Terry L. Jones, Floodlight

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#airpollution #chemicalplants #environemtalnews
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

✍Emily Sanders, ExxonKnews

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October 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Gov. Jeff Landry scraps sediment diversion planned for Breton Sound marsh.

✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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#coastalrestorationproject #bretonsoundmarsh #environmentalnews
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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On Sunday, volunteers placed hundreds of native tree and shrub saplings in a miniature forest outside the Ridley School, a project aimed at increasing biodiversity and fighting climate change. It's Brookline's second mini-forest, inspired by a Japanese botanist.

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Brookline's second mini-forest was just planted at the Ridley School. Here's why these native seedlings matter. - Brookline.News
Community volunteers placed hundreds of native tree and shrub saplings in a miniature forest to increase biodiversity and fight climate change.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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#OPINION While Gov. Jeff Landry was quick to denounce the speed of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-led clean-up, he's silent in holding Smitty's Supply itself accountable for the explosion...

✍Greg LaRose, Louisiana Illuminator

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October 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 "Intentionally or not, Trump is adding weight to this burden that women are already carrying as family health managers."

✍Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th

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#childhoodvaccines #vaccinedelay #presidenttrump
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Plant held millions of gallons of motor oils, fluids and other petrochemicals.

✍Wesley Muller, Louisiana Illuminator

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#smittyssupply #hazardouspollution #tangipohoaparish
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Three years after a federally funded move, Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles report broken homes — and promises.

✍Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon | Floodlight

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#climaterelocation #isledejeancharles #environmentalnews
September 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 A new Tulane University study on brown anoles could offer a better understanding of lead poisoning...

✍Elise Plunk, Louisiana Illuminator

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#brownanolelizards #tulaneuniversity #leadpoisoning
September 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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For @thelensnola.bsky.social, @delaneynolan.bsky.social and I dove deep into a CO2 pipeline Exxon wants to build right near communities in St James Parish, La, for carbon capture.

A CO2 rupture can be lethal, and federal safety regs have been pulled by Trump thelensnola.org/2025/09/18/i...
In St. James Parish, Exxon plans to lay carbon pipeline alarmingly close to homes, businesses | The Lens
Experts and residents decry hazards to people and lack of regulations, transparency
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September 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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The MBTA is planning to remove nine trees from Beacon Street near the Englewood Ave and Tappan Street stations, including the pictured large pin oak, during the first phase of its work on Green Line accessibility improvements.

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MBTA, town officials outline Beacon Street tree removal plan for first phase of Green Line accessibility project - Brookline.News
The MBTA is planning to remove nine trees on Beacon Street near the C Branch stations at Tappan Street and Englewood Ave as the first phase of its accessibility updates this fall.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 A buzzed-about spelling bee returns to the United States’ biggest maximum security prison.

✍️ Lawson Strickland

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September 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Check out the latest episode of the Brookline.News podcast to hear what's behind the headlines on Brookline's cannabis industry, toxic chemicals at the Pierce School, and a new restaurant which calls itself a love letter to the empanada.

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Brookline.News Podcast Episode 5: Trouble in Brookline's cannabis industry, toxic chemicals at Pierce School and a love letter to empanadas - Brookline.News
On the fifth episode of the Brookline.News podcast, Brookline.News editor Sam Mintz and Brookline Interactive Group executive director Jessica Smyser discuss the latest news, including a deep dive on ...
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September 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Low levels of toxic chemicals known as PCBs were found in soil near the Pierce School during the rebuilding project, in an area between the historic school building and Town Hall.

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Low levels of toxic chemicals known as PCBs found in soil during Pierce School rebuild - Brookline.News
Low levels of the toxic chemical were found in shallow soils between Town Hall and the historic Pierce School Building, but not on school grounds, according to the project's manager.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Inspired by the floodwaters after Katrina and the birth of his son, photographer Gus Bennett created a new photography series, Organic Watermarks

✍️ Gus Bennett

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#OrganicWatermarks #photography #katrina20yearslater
August 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Within the Orleans Parish Prison jail, thousands of people remained trapped inside as the floodwaters rose higher by the hour.

✍Bernard Smith

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August 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 The global music star, whose hometown of New Orleans was devastated in 2005 by the hurricane and subsequent levee engineering failures, says ‘people power’ can change the world.

✍Mark Hertsgaard, The Guardian

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August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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#TheLensNola🔍 Even as New Orleans marks the 20-year anniversary of one of the federal government’s greatest failures, close observers warn that recent FEMA changes could set the stage for history to repeat itself.

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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August 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 For more than a century, the St. Claude Avenue lift bridge over the Industrial Canal has withstood life-altering floods and record-breaking hurricanes. Last November, it became a national historic landmark.

✍️ Tess Riley

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August 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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#TheLensNola🔍 A permanent fix is still on the way for corrosion found in the massive lakefront pumps – and there’s likely more corrosion on the underground steel supporting certain floodwalls...

✍️ Delaney Nolan

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August 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The town's new sustainability division, funded to start by an anonymous donor, has been working for a year. Here's what its staff have been up to:

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A year in, town's sustainability division helps bring $2 million in grants, plans for the future - Brookline.News
A year ago, Brookline's sustainability division was funded in part by an anonymous donor. What has it accomplished since?
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August 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM