Healthy Gulf

This article is excerpted from Wave Maker’s News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here. Mississippi has a long history of taking federal dollars for something good like environmental restoration or low-income housing and spending it on something environmentally damaging. One of the most […]

As Americans, we take for granted that the water we drink, swim in, and fish in is clean. In the not so recent past, this was not the case. Rivers were catching on fire and many rivers and lakes were dead. To a large extent, we owe our clean water to Congress passing the Clean

For the 5th year in a row, GRN will be at Bonnaroo, collecting signatures to defend the Gulf Coast! In Planet-Roo, the non-profit section of the festival, we’ll also be asking for “oily” handprints to add to our “Congress, You’ve Got Oil on Your Hands” petition calling for congressional action in response to the BP

I have to admit that I am totally mystified. Record numbers of turtles and neonatal and new borne dolphins are washing up on our beaches; we have not yet determined how much damage has been done to Gulf fish species, deep water corals, or wetlands; our Congressmen and Senators from the Gulf have yet to

Earth Month is here, so stop by an Aveda salon to help GRN continue the fight for healthy water. Since 2006, Aveda salons across the southeast have partnered with the GRN and raised over $1.4 million to promote healthy waters throughout the Gulf. Throughout the month of April, salons host fashion shows, walks, concerts, and

Manatee Springs State Park, photo courtesy of Paul Clark.Over the last few months, GRN’s Science and Water Policy Team has been busy fighting to keep the rivers, bayous and streams of the Gulf safe for ourselves and future generations. From the effort to protect Florida’s Nature Coast from the “mining beast” to pushing states and

After Hurricane Katrina, Congress sent millions of dollars in recovery money to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to help families rebuild and communities recover, but not all of that money went where it was supposed to. Instead, many recovery dollars meant to help low-income families find homes were funneled into pork barrel projects like the proposed

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that it’s seeking input and comments from the public on the restoration of the Gulf in the wake of the BP drilling disaster. This comment period and series of hearings throughout the Gulf will be one of the first opportunities for regular citizens to have a

On I joined over fifty concerned citizens who had gathered in the Harrison County Courthouse to protest the proposal to build a dirty, unnecessary, and expensive coal plant and lignite mine in Kemper County, Mississippi, and listen in on oral arguments for the Sierra Club’s legal challenge in front of the Chancery Court. You can

We urgently need your help to stop Congress from slashing environmental protection programs. This week, the House of Representatives will be voting on a bill that would drastically cut funding for clean water and clean air programs, national parks and clean energy programs. This budget bill–known as the “continuing resolution”will jeopardize wetlands, wildlife, and the