Healthy Gulf

Poorly treated sewage from the South Lagoons pouring into the Leaf River.Gulf Restoration Network and its members, represented by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, filed suit Friday March 2, 2012 against the city of Hattiesburg over numerous and ongoing violations of the Clean Water Act related to Hattiesburg’s North and South Sewage lagoons. The city’s […]

View of drilling rig and platforms, approximatelly 1.4 miles from Alabama’s Dauphin Island. Photo credit Harold Wright.On I joined a group of business owners and conservationists at the Yacht Harbor in Gulfport, Mississippi to speak out against a proposal to open up state waters to oil and gas drilling and production. Check out an article

Don’t see any oil or gas platforms on the horizon along Mississippi’s coast? That could change soon, unless you take action now to tell Governor Phil Bryant and the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) to reject a plan to open up state waters to drilling and production.It’s up to us to prevent the marred views of

On behalf of the Gulf Restoration Board of Directors and Staff, we wish you and your family a happy New Year! 2011 was a somewhat successful year for the Gulf because of supporters like you. As was plain from the blog posted by Dan Favre, GRN’s Communication Director, after our staff retreat, in the last

The Senate may vote as early as this week on legislation that would make it impossible to protect many important streams, wetlands, and other waters under the Clean Water Act. Please take a moment today to tell your Senators to vote NO on this dirty water legislation.The “Barrasso-Heller Dirty Water Amendment” to the Energy and

James Hurtt speaking on the bus after the hearing. On Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of joining a bus load of fired-up Mississippi Power ratepayers from the coast on a trip to Kemper County, Mississippi – the proposed site for a massive new dirty lignite coal mine. If this huge mine, and Mississippi Power’s

Ashley Guidry from Lafayette, LA is the raffle winner for the Rediscover New Orleans Aveda Earth Month Drawing 2011. Congratulations Ashley! The Grand Prize includes:Two nights at the Intercontinental New Orleans and brunch for two$500 gift card on the airline of your choice$200 gift certificate for dinner at Lilette$150 gift certificate for dinner at Gautreau’sThanks

The shaded areas represent lignite coal reserves.Strip mining for lignite coal is a nasty process. Thankfully, few of us have had to directly bear witnesses to how it impacts communities, and nearby rivers, streams and wetlands, but that could change if a North Dakota mining company is allowed to move forward with its proposal for

Hattiesburg South lagoons, as seen from space.Photo courtesy of Google Maps. Last week, the city of Hattiesburg, Mississippi held a press conference and released a statement acknowledging that the city’s South Sewage lagoons are “under enormous pressure” and have “quite simply…not kept pace with the tremendous growth in population and industry” that the city has

On September 9th, the Department of Energy announced the cancellation of the last ongoing environmental study for the Richton salt dome project, effectively halting any further progress on the project. This irresponsible oil storage scheme would have required the removal of 50 million gallons of water a day from the Pascagoula River for five to