​Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal Honorable Judges James McKay, Paula Brown and Dale Atkins heard oral arguments on appeals of Judge Piper Griffin’s two judgments that included a decision to void the New Orleans City Council’s approval of Entergy’s gas plant for open meetings law violations.

​​Entergy joined the City Council in arguing against New Orleans community and public interest organizations, who were represented by attorneys from the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, Earthjustice, Green Justice Legal and Loyola Law School.

Despite the environmental, economic, and reliability benefits of switching to  a renewables future, New Orleans, Louisiana is being blocked by local utility monopoly, Entergy.

NOLA is ready to embrace an all-renewables future. Why? Well, UCS research shows that making the switch would probably save them money. 

If you live in New Orleans, you know how often the electricity goes out. Advisers hired by the New Orleans City Council found that, between June 2016 and May 2017, there were a total of 2,599 outages and roughly half lasted two hours or more. 

Sure, some of this can be blamed on heat, flooding and storms, but more than half the power outages reported were unrelated to weather. More than a third resulted from equipment failure. 

​I am studying to become an engineer, and as an engineer, I am taught to solve problems as effectively and efficiently as possible. This means addressing the root cause of the problem rather than its symptoms, using innovation to your advantage, and above all looking to many different perspectives for solutions.

​These ideals are exemplified by the Resilient and Renewable Portfolio Standard (R-RPS), a plan proposed earlier this year to fight the climate crisis in New Orleans. New Orleans is uniquely vulnerable to climate change.