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Destruction is left in the wake of Hurricane Ida on August 31

Louisiana offering travel trailers and other housing to those left without a home after Hurricane Ida

By Rebekah Riess and Kelly McCleary, CNN Louisiana is launching a sheltering program for those “currently living in unsafe or unsanitary” conditions due to damage from Hurricane Ida, which slammed into the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm more than five weeks ago, officials said Monday. The Hurricane Ida Sheltering Program will provide temporary

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Workers in protective suits clean oil in the Talbert Marsh wetlands after a 126

A ship anchor hooking the pipeline may have caused the California oil spill, federal agency says

By Madeline Holcombe, Eric Levenson, Amir Vera and Cheri Mossburg, CNN An anchor hooking an oil pipeline may have caused the Southern California spill that spewed more than 100,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean, the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said in a notice to operation owner Amplify Energy. “The pipeline

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Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells

By Taylor Romine, CNN The family of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cells have been used for groundbreaking scientific research for decades, filed a lawsuit Monday against Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. for unjust enrichment from the nonconsensual use and profiting from her tissue sample and cell line. Lacks, a Black woman diagnosed with cervical cancer,

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