Citing federal civil rights law, the Sierra Club and its Glades-based Stop the Burn campaign are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department ...

Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

PAINCOURTVILLE, La. - Drought conditions have not improved, but the state is easing off the burn ban. It's coming just in time for one of the state's largest crops, sugar cane. There are more than 500 ...

Each year, large swaths of Louisiana are engulfed in toxic smoke from post-harvest sugar cane burning. Communities suffer in silence while state leadership looks the other way. Gov. Jeff Landry’s ...

PUUNENE — Fermin Domingo points his gas blowtorch out the window of his dusty red truck and ignites the dried sugar cane. He then methodically drives 20 feet to light another stack of cane, then ...

We have all seen it. That enormous thick cloud looming over the sugar cane fields. It fills the lush beautiful land with a disturbing haze as it hovers over our homes and hearts. That toxic cloud is ...