Laura Maggi
Natural resources editor at POLITICO’s E&E News. www.eenews.net | lmaggi@eenews.net
- Reposted by Laura MaggiHire Dino for stuff! You will not regret it.
- This is the year I’m going to be honest about something. I’m one of those people who make NYT cooking recipes but change all the steps.
- Black-eyed pea and greens gumbo via Donald Link via NY Times. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019...
- But why not double the trinity, use red peppers and skip the okra? And cook the trinity and roux separately to develop flavor à la Frank Brigtsen. www.nola.com/entertainmen...
- And cook the stock and roux together much longer to make sure that flour flavor cooks out. Using a good BBQ pulled pork is a flavor cheat! But gumbo tastes good!
- Reposted by Laura MaggiLouisiana launched a $3B wetland restoration project after Hurricane Katrina with support from both parties, in part to "shield the New Orleans area from future storms." But now Gov. Jeff Landry, a Trump ally, has canceled it, @mirandawrites.bsky.social writes. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
- Reposted by Laura MaggiGordon Russell, former managing editor of The Times-Picayune, now at Boston Globe, opines on Hurricane Katrina: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/29/o...
- Reposted by Laura MaggiRIP Tom Lehrer, truly one of the greatest to ever do it, a satirist beyond compare, a brilliant wordsmith, a cheeky fellow, I loved him and his work beyond reason.
- Reposted by Laura MaggiTrump officials are preparing for "dramatically shrinking" FEMA, which could threaten disaster response at a time when climate change is worsening extreme storms. It would shift the federal response to states, which may not be prepared to handle the challenge. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
- Reposted by Laura MaggiToday's scoop: NASEM has received termination orders for at least two NOAA-sponsored studies, one on equity in fisheries management and another on diversity in ocean sciences. Meanwhile, DOGE activities at the agency continue to ramp up. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
- Reposted by Laura MaggiSeems like a good time to post my lil starter pack of E&E News reporters, who are gradually getting active over here (if I've missed anyone, lemme know!). These folks have got you covered on the climate/energy/environment angles for everything in the news. go.bsky.app/KxTUCi1at://did:plc:bz6w6vsvdcxjuji5a64r36wu/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lgvi5233y525
- There is currently a civil conversation happening on the neighborhood list serve about a local government housing density plan. It feels miraculous.
- Reposted by Laura MaggiNew Orleans’ Times-Picayune took down its paywall to give us access to its excellent spot coverage of the Bourbon Street attack. And if you want to support the site’s mission without committing to a subscription… 1/2 www.nola.com/news/bourbon...
- At the end of 2024, a look at where things stand with Biden’s bid to remake the American economy. www.eenews.net/articles/bid...
- From last week: @mirandawrites.bsky.social on the ongoing work to deal with the rising seas swamping the Trump EPA’s Long Island hometown. www.eenews.net/articles/ris...
- Len Davis is one of the death row prisoners whose sentence was commuted by Biden. A New Orleans police officer, he ordered a hit on Kim Groves in 1994 for filing a complaint about him. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/u...
- More about Kim Groves, a 32-year-old mother of three. veritenews.org/2024/10/14/k...
- The city of New Orleans didn’t agree to pay a settlement to Groves’ children until 2018. www.nola.com/news/courts/...
- As someone who dreaded the collection of panettone my grandmother would patiently eat her way through each winter — and foist on us — I identified with this a lot. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
- I sent my dad a fig and chocolate one and he declared it to be "very good."
- The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing monarch butterflies as threatened. It’s a particularly challenging ESA ruling. www.eenews.net/articles/fed...
- “I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health,” RFK said on his podcast during the campaign. www.eenews.net/articles/bio...
- Garret Graves as possible FEMA head? What would the Louisiana congressman do with the agency’s flood insurance rate restructuring, which is so loathed in his state? www.eenews.net/articles/fem...
- I was outraged — outraged! — to see Marcella at 25 until I reread and saw the list wasn’t ranked. #readingcomprehension Good list. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/t...
- Read this when you can set aside a few moments to sob in the bathroom (if you’re at work).
- A new Rusty Foster on the Appalachian Trail update! In which @rusty.todayintabs.com makes the commenters cry. In all seriousness, this is one of the loveliest pieces about parenting and the road of life I have read in a long time www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Reposted by Laura MaggiInterstate 40 Eastbound near Asheville is…it’s just gone.
- A good weekend read. E&E News’ Mike Doyle looks at the tensions between endangered species protections and a transmission line that could expand renewable energy in Nebraska. www.eenews.net/articles/a-t...
