Dossier
Floodlight
Coverage of Floodlight in the Nexus archive.
- Louisiana communities are left in the dark on toxic air — and industry helped keep it that way
Louisiana residents near industrial facilities face toxic air pollution with limited public monitoring. A 2023 industry-backed law restricted community-collected air data, and state monitors often lack proximity to major polluters or fail to test for key carcinogens like ethylene oxide, chloroprene, and formaldehyde.
- A Louisiana state senator helped secure Meta’s largest datacenter. Then he sold the land beside it
Louisiana state senator John 'Jay' Morris, who helped secure Meta’s Hyperion datacenter in Richland Parish, sold adjacent land, drawing claims of ethics violations. Morris denies these allegations.