Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Trump administration okayed several new liquefied natural gas facilities on the Gulf this year, but residents are still picking up the pieces after the first LNG plants entered their neighborhood under Democratic administrations. In this report, Laura speaks to Louisianans whose lives have been turned upside down by the petrochemical industry. Travis Dardar, a commercial fisherman, is a two-time climate refugee.
Catch this special report on public television and radio, YouTube and podcast platforms: youtu.be/de0rH2PoHFc
#ClimateRefugee #Louisiana #LNG
The Trump administration okayed several new liquefied natural gas facilities on the Gulf this year, but residents are still picking up the pieces after the first LNG plants entered their neighborhood under Democratic administrations. In this report, Laura speaks to Louisianans whose lives have been turned upside down by the petrochemical industry. Travis Dardar, a commercial fisherman, is a two-time climate refugee.
Catch this special report on public television and radio, YouTube and podcast platforms: youtu.be/de0rH2PoHFc
#ClimateRefugee #Louisiana #LNG

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“[NEA members] are rightly concerned about what the Trump administration has done to diminish public education, to try to destroy it honestly, and to diminish them as educators.”
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