Mark Schleifstein

Environment/Hurricane/Levee reporter for The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate; Co-author, Path of Destruction; Member, SEJ, IRE

[Mark Schleifstein @MSchleifstein]

5th Circuit Judge Engelhardt wrote “lying about the presence of lead in the water is a far cry from the state’s physically extracting evidence from a criminal suspect or conducting an invasive medical procedure without consent.”

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We also know that alpha-gal is dangerous. As many as three-quarters of people who test positive experience anaphylactic shock. There have now been a handful of deaths linked to alpha-gal syndrome.

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“Jackson is probably the last city I would pick to take in added industrial wastewater until it can manage its own water infrastructure,” said Tulane University’s Haley Gentry.

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A new study examining nitrogen levels recorded within coral skeletons shows how nutrient pollution from the Mississippi River, combined with the hot tub-like underwater heat waves are undermining the health of this otherwise hearty reef.

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Here’s link to CNN story on its suit against Trump that includes copy of the suit. Real journalism!

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Fascinating look at disasters and the roles of government, media, business, unions and others. Yes, work by me and John McQuaid favorably called out on Katrina levee failures.
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Tatiana and Viktor Vdovin showed up for their routine check-in meeting with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Aug. 18 as they had every year since fleeing Russia in 2022.

Something was off this time.

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Baby planet!
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Great opportunity for scientists to learn how to talk to us reporters! https://t.co/KjnfchtE6P...

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Around 87.2% by volume of the frozen shrimp sold in the U.S. is imported, according to filings in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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The 2026 Atlantic #hurricane season has still had zero hurricanes. The last time an Atlantic hurricane season went past 11 September before its 1st hurricane was in 1941.

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Shana Tova to Jewish communities celebrating #RoshHashanah.

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Fun view of anti-climate-change attacks on science, scientists:

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That’s Trump promising a bribe and that’s an impeachable offense! Congress, do your job!

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President Trump on Wednesday promised that if Republicans win the House and Senate during the midterm elections, he will pay a $5,000 "dividend" to "every adult citizen in the United States of America."

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@CBSNews That’s Trump promising a bribe and that’s an impeachable offense! Congress, do your job!

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I'sn't Congress approval needed? - Trump to stop Census from asking questions, incl race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, claiming it “should be colorblind and should not be distorted in any way by questions about immaterial personal characteristics.”
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A reminder: https://t.co/HHJVVkjN8P

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The new expansion will spread into next-door Greater New Orleans Landfill, created before tougher federal and state requirements were adopted. It was a focus of complaints in the '80s + was capped and closed in 1999, years before River Birch owned it.
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