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Aidan McCahill/WRKFThe 80-year-old bill requires updates from Congress every five years to account for inflation and shifting welfare and agricultural policies. While some conservative circles argue the subsidies distort free markets, the omnibus bill has traditionally enjoyed broad bipartisan support. Urban and rural constituencies depend on its programs, while policymakers view a stable food source as imperative to national security. -
Danny McArthur/Gulf States NewsroomPoor sanitation has long plagued residents in Alabama’s Black Belt. For people with manufactured houses, finding a solution has been more challenging.
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Mayors along the Mississippi River have watched for years as intensifying rain storms and flooding wreak havoc on their communities. -
But the state still lags behind most others in its rollout of federally-funded chargers along the interstate highway system. -
The St. John the Baptist Parish School Board will shutter a predominantly Black elementary school that sits on the fenceline of a chemical plant. The decision came after eight years of pressure from community groups, federal agencies and lawyers. -
Residents have until Nov. 24 to provide feedback on the design before it’s finalized. -
The forecast cone no longer includes Louisiana. Local impacts will be primarily coastal flooding, winds and heavy rainfall from the system’s outer bands, the National Weather Service said. -
The feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if leaders don’t act soon. -
Rafael strengthened Wednesday into a powerful Category 3 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in western Cuba, where it was forecast to bring “life-threatening” storm surges, winds and flash floods. -
Louisiana’s coastal restoration fund could get a boost from offshore wind revenues. -
Forecasters say a new tropical storm is expected to form in the Caribbean and will bring heavy rain to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands before strengthening to a hurricane and likely hitting Cuba. -
The clean energy transition, for one, a Floodlight analysis of campaign finance data reveals.
