Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the ...

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

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Louisiana has adopted nitrogen hypoxia as a new execution method, following Alabama’s lead. Gov. Landry says it’s time for ...

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Brian Mast, the new chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, promised this week that Republicans would question “every dollar and every diplomat” in the State Department’s budget to ensure it ...

State Sen. John Jager, R-Watertown, and Rep. Bob Wittke, R-Caledonia, introduced legislation that would reset the K-12 school report card standards of 2019-20, makes grades 3-8 standards the same ...

The State must take more measures to reduce the deposition of nitrogen in nature, the court in The Hague ruled on Wednesday in a case brought by Greenpeace against the Dutch government. A penalty of ...

The state “acts unlawfully” by failing to stop environmental harm in protected areas “due to nitrogen,” judges said in a ruling in The Hague on Wednesday. “Policy is grossly inadequate ...

Judges have ordered the Dutch state to take action to reduce nitrogen-based pollution in the country’s most vulnerable habitats or face a fine of €10 million in 2030. This year’s targets will not be ...

The nitrogen problem has plagued the Netherlands for years following rulings in 2018 by the European Court of Justice and in 2019 by the Netherlands' Council of State that Dutch policies were ...