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April Showers Bring May Flows: What That Means for Louisiana’s Wetlands
May 24, 2017
April showers usually bring May flowers. They also often bring higher river flows. The heavy rainfall within the Mississippi River’s enormous drainage basin over the last month is currently flowing down the river toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Groups claim Trump budget abandons Louisiana’s Coastal Erosion needs
May 24, 2017
A post-Katrina effort led by then-US Senator Mary Landrieu is under attack by a Trump budget proposal. The impact might have severe consequences upon the state's severe coastal erosion problem.
Louisiana officials on Trump’s plan to cut coastal funding: ‘deal breaker,’ will ‘set us back decades’
May 24, 2017
President Donald Trump's proposed budget would deal a huge blow to Louisiana's program for protecting and restoring its disappearing coast.
Louisiana coast money at risk in federal budget
May 23, 2017
President Donald Trump's first budget proposal calls for eliminating a key source of funding for coastal restoration, federal offshore oil revenue sharing.
President Trump’s Budget Proposal Abandons Louisiana Coastal Restoration
May 23, 2017
(NEW ORLEANS – May 23, 2017) Earlier today, President Trump unveiled a budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018 that would significantly set back coastal restoration and protection efforts in Louisiana. The proposal upends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act…
Lockport Library to teach kids about wetlands
May 15, 2017
The Lockport Library will be teaching children about the importance of wetlands later next month by growing miniature ecosystems.
Coastal plan approved
May 15, 2017
The Senate Committee on Natural Resources Thursday approved the state coastal master plan.
Sediment Diversion Operations & Oyster Shell Recycling
May 10, 2017
Welcome to the latest episode of Delta Dispatches. On today’s show Natalie Peyronnin, Director of Science Policy and Mississippi River Delta Restoration at the Environmental Defense Fund, speaks to Jacques about sediment diversions operations.
Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion would produce 43M metric tonnes of sediment in 10 years, Water Institute CEO says
May 8, 2017
The head of the Water Institute of the Gulf today detailed the expected impact of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, a mammoth $1.4 billion project that would divert Mississippi River water at an unprecedented scale to stem coastal land loss.
Rolling the tide back from Louisiana’s coast
May 3, 2017
In an effort to increase political will and attract national attention to perhaps one of the most urgent environmental issues in U.S. history, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency due to the state’s rapidly dissipating coastline…