Lafourche Parish moved one step closer to spending $1.3 million in Restore Act money on engineering, design work and permitting of five coastal restoration projects.[…]
The attorneys general for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida announced this morning that BP will pay an $18.7 billion settlement relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[…]
Design work on a billion-dollar sediment pipeline project in Terrebonne Parish is expected to begin soon.[…]
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced a two-phase closure on Elmer’s Island for the Caminada Headland Beach and Dune Restoration Project, according to a press release.[…]
In support of Earth Day next week, project volunteers and students from Grand Isle, Larose and Golden Meadow schools will build about 6,000 square feet of new wetland island habitat just north of Highway 1 this weekend.[…]
BURAS, LA. – When Capt. Ryan Lambert started guiding 35 years ago, the habitat on the west side of the Mississippi River at Buras was much different than it is today.[…]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened a temporary bypass channel in the Doullet Canal today to facilitate construction of the new Empire Floodgate in Plaquemines Parish.[…]
Terrebonne Parish is ready to pitch a billion-dollar sediment pipeline concept for inclusion in the state’s coastal restoration plans.[…]
To raise awareness for one of Louisiana’s first politically spurred campaigns against coastal land loss, former Gov. Mike Foster took a publicity team into open water off of St. Mary Parish, cast a line and showed the crew his GPS, which showed them on solid ground.[…]
Ways the coast sustains damage[…]
February 25 — A task force made up of representatives from federal agencies such at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Marine Fisheries Service and coastal parish governments met to narrow down over 60 projects to 21 nominees for funding.[…]
A few hours after the sun goes down, if you’re sitting on the dock stretching out into Bayou Lafourche outside of Lisa Cefalu’s camp in Leeville, you’ll see a giant orange light of what looks like a refinery turning on for the night shift begin to glow.[…]
As Louisiana’s coastline continues it’s quiet march inland, creating unprecedented challenges for communities that don’t directly neighbor the Gulf of Mexico, new advocates are cropping up.[…]
It’s already happening. Right now. Low-lying areas along the coast are disappearing and exposing what sits behind to the Gulf of Mexico, which continues pushing further into Louisiana with each passing year.[…]
The United States is losing wetlands in coastal watersheds at a significant rate, according to a new report released in January by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.[…]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words or, in the case of New Orleans attorneys Gladstone Jones and Jim Swanson, untold damages that are well into the millions.[…]