Johnny Jacobs Playground will open as a cooling center for Marrero residents impacted by a planned Entergy outage Sunday, Aug ...

This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.

Summer temperatures are only going to keep rising. We need a stronger, smarter, more connected grid before the next heatwave pushes us past the breaking point.