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Double the capacity, double the bill: Meta and Entergy announce a plan to build 7 new power plants for AI data centers in LA.

Posted April 3, 202600:28:08

In this episode of Behind The Lens, host Carolyne Heldman Rovira interviews journalist and policy advisor Ned Randolph, to unpack a major energy and...

The day of reckoning: The Supreme Court will soon decide if oil companies have to pay for damage to the LA coast. 

Posted March 28, 202600:25:18

In this episode of Behind The Lens, host Carolyne Heldman speaks with investigative reporter Emily Sanders to unpack decades of coastal damage linked...

Getting Squeezed: How the wars in Ukraine and Iran are affecting the pocketbooks of LA citizens

Posted March 13, 202600:28:54

Reporter Delaney Nolan discusses how attacks on energy infrastructure drive up the price for U.S. liquified natural gas exports. [...]

Beads Won: Politics in Mardi Gras parades

Posted February 27, 202600:22:52

Delaney Nolan discusses the anti-ICE paraders during Mardi Gras. [...]

Innovative or Ill-Advised?: A NOLA addiction doctor leaves after her novel approach raises questions at her hospital

Posted February 20, 202600:24:04

Aneri Pattani from KFF Health News talks about Elyse Stevens, who was a primary care and addiction medicine doctor in New Orleans. [...]