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March 21, 2019
The oversight board of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority on Wednesday approved CPRA’s plan to spend about $2.48 billion over the next three years.
March 11, 2019
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and its federal partner, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), have awarded the construction contract for the Northwest Turtle Bay Marsh Creation Project in Jefferson Parish.
March 4, 2019
Louisiana needs every dollar it can get to rebuild its coast and shore up storm protection. The state is a decade into its 50-year coastal restoration master plan and has started to make some progress...
February 21, 2019
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Board yesterday received updates on multiple hurricane protection systems and projects that will protect people, property and habitat across the state coastal zone.
February 19, 2019
Louisiana’s proposed $800 million Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion has been added to the Federal Infrastructure Projects Permitting Dashboard, confirming the federal government is targeting the project for a faster environmental permitting process.
February 15, 2019
The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) announced yesterday, receipt of approval from the Army Corps of Engineers to Louisiana’s request to include the Mid-Breton Sediment Diversion project on the Federal Permitting Dashboard.
January 11, 2019
All interested persons may submit comments relative to this proposed Rule, through the extended deadline of March 20, 2019, to Harry Vorhoff, counsel for CPRA, at Post Office Box 44027, Baton Rouge, LA 70804.
January 7, 2019
The completion of a $36 million project to restore and nourish wetlands on the northern edges of Lost Lake in Terrebonne Parish was announced Friday (Jan. 4) by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
November 19, 2018
The most important issue facing the state of Louisiana, and Plaquemines Parish in particular, is coastal land loss. The statement, “We lose a football field of land every 100 minutes,” runs way too smoothly off our tongues. In fact, this…
November 19, 2018
Louisiana will receive $161.4 million from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to continue its reconstruction of barrier islands and shorelines in the Terrebonne Basin, with the money coming from settlements of criminal charges with BP and Transocean for their…