When the pre-harvest sugar cane burning season began on Oct. 3 with fires across 160 acres of Glades land, the Florida Department of Agriculture, which authorizes the blazes, proclaimed the day the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Setting fields of sugar cane on fire to burn off the plants’ unused outer layer and facilitate harvesting has been phased out in other countries on evidence that it not only contributes to climate ...