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Behind the Lens episode 235: ‘One step behind Exxon’ News Update

Posted April 25, 202400:34:09

This week on Behind The Lens, Sara Sneath on a Louisiana law that allows carbon capture well sites to remain unknown under a "trade secret" exception...

Behind The Lens episode 234: ‘Rabble-rousing at the Big Green’

Posted April 12, 202400:26:39

La'Shance Perry on St. John Parish's vote on rezoning for Greenfield. Delaney Dryfoos on Gov. Landry's Task Force for Sewerage and Water Board. And...

Behind The Lens episode 233: ‘A Black hamlet’

Posted March 29, 202400:35:55

Delaney Dryfoos on St. John the Baptist Parish's voted to allow heavy industrial uses on the parish’s rural West Bank after years of contentious debate....

Behind The Lens “Sunshine Week” episode 232: ‘It’s so powerful to see’

Posted March 15, 202400:33:42

Lens reporters on the Louisiana Public Records Act and how it helps us fulfill our mission. We reflect on how records made possible reporting on Henry...

Behind The Lens episode 231: ‘We cannot allow it to fail’

Posted March 8, 202400:34:10

Katy Reckdahl and La'Shance Perry on the loss of musician Kerry "Fatman" Hunter. Marta Jewson and Dr. Ashonta Wyatt on the district's decision to open...