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Column | I’m an oncologist. Here’s what nonsmokers need to know about lung cancer.

While smoking tobacco is the largest risk factor for lung cancer, up to 20 percent of diagnoses occur in nonsmokers. There are several explanations for that.

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Data center developer offers residents of Kansas town $1,000 each for 10 years

Digital Realty is offering utility and property tax credits to residents of De Soto, Kansas, in a bid to win public support for a data center facility.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/live/2026/10/09/…

Isaias Drops to Post-Tropical Cyclone After Making Landfall in Florida (Gift Article)

The storm came ashore as a hurricane, with howling winds and pelting downpours. Its effects are expected to be felt far inland.

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Nuclear reactors, data center campuses, gas-powered plants proposed in Iberville, Ascension

If completed, the project would add an extra 20% to Louisiana's electricity generation capacity.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2026/09/13/clima…

E.P.A. Erases Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)

Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.

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Source: BBC share.google/Q5DcVzGIR3aO9NO…

Firefighters say glutathione helped them - their union warns it could be risky

Glutathione, an antioxidant, has been offered as a treatment at some of the largest US wildfires in recent years.

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Can Trump help Louisiana’s struggling shrimpers? ‘We just want a level playing field.’ nola.com/news/environment/lo… via @nolanews

Can Trump help Louisiana’s struggling shrimpers? ‘We just want a level playing field.’

Rising diesel prices only strain shrimpers more, they say, as their costs rise, but shrimp prices stay low because of imports.

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America’s air monitors are disappearing, along with the power to expose polluters • Louisiana...

Since 2024, lawmakers in Louisiana, Ohio and Kentucky have passed strikingly similar bills — backed by chemical or manufacturing trade groups — that curb the use of community-collected data in...

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How the Tunica-Biloxi's tribe rural health clinic became a community resource nola.com/entertainment_life/… via @nolanews

How the Tunica-Biloxi's tribe rural health clinic became a community resource

Explore the journey of the Tunica-Biloxi tribe in Marksville, Louisiana, as they navigate COVID-19 challenges and expand their rural health clinic to serve both tribal and non-Native community...

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Damage, questions linger a year after Smitty’s Supply disaster as company plans comeback lailluminator.com/2026/08/27…

Damage, questions linger a year after Smitty’s Supply disaster as company plans comeback • Louisi...

A year after the Smitty’s Supply explosion dispersed millions of gallons of oil and chemicals in Tangipahoa Parish, environmental officials are still investigating the disaster as the company...

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Farmer files lawsuit against Smitty’s Supply over explosion damages to property, livestock lailluminator.com/2025/09/10…

Farmer files lawsuit against Smitty’s Supply over explosion damages to property, livestock

A Roseland resident has filed a lawsuit against Smitty’s Supply following the Aug. 22 explosion and fire at the petrochemical facility.

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General Mills removes artificial colors from US cereals newsbreak.com/news/485118952…

General Mills removes artificial colors from US cereals - NewsBreak

General Mills said Wednesday that it has ended the use of artificial coloring in its United States cereal portfolio with intentions to remove the dyes from

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Musk plans $100 billion SpaceX launch site in coastal Louisiana lailluminator.com/2026/08/25…

Musk plans $100 billion SpaceX launch site in coastal Louisiana

Following months of rumors, SpaceX confirmed Tuesday that it’s building a $100 billion self-sustaining spaceport in Vermilion Parish.

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It’s official: SpaceX is coming to Louisiana businessreport.com/business/… via @Baton Rouge Business Report

It’s official: SpaceX is coming to Louisiana

SpaceX, the Elon Musk-led aerospace company, is investing $100 billion to build a launch facility in coastal Vermilion Parish, state officials announced Tuesday morning in Abbeville. The long-rumored...

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Source: The Times of India share.google/k4zLOvkR03kKAMc…

In 2021, Alabama students began placing discarded Christmas trees along Gulf Coast dunes to trap...

The Times of India brings the Latest & Top Breaking News on Politics and Current Affairs in India & around the World, Cricket, Sports, Business, Bollywood News and Entertainment, Science, Technology,...

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Magnitude 3.4 earthquake reported near Edgefield - WDSU wdsu.com/article/magnitude-3…

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake shook northwest Louisiana Friday night

The quake follows Louisiana’s largest inland earthquake in March.

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New Report: Plastic Expelled: Exposing Industry Propaganda in U.S. Schools | Plastic Pollution Coalition plasticpollutioncoalition.or…

New Report: Plastic Expelled: Exposing Industry Propaganda in U.S. Schools

Plastic Expelled exposes the plastic industry’s propaganda playbook and outlines how to get the plastic industry out of schools.

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Source: Louisiana Illuminator share.google/Kb31Df9s1AQwbeh…

2 years after ‘red mud’ escaped alumina refinery, LDEQ hasn’t penalized company

Two years after environmental regulators first documented 'red mud' waste from the Atalco alumina refinery escaping into public waterways, the state has yet to penalize the company. 

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Wildfire Disruptions to the Tour de France Show How Climate Change Is Shaping Sports - TIME apple.news/Ay6wLtNQURa2DBXda…

Wildfire Disruptions to the Tour de France Show How Climate Change Is Shaping Sports

What should have been a standout moment in the world of sports was almost overshadowed on Sunday as 27-year-old Slovenian cyclist Tadej Pogačar took home his fifth Tour de France amid a last-minute...

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