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Yazoo Pumps (Again)

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Protect Clean Water

The controversial Yazoo Backwater Area pump project in the lower Mississippi Delta is again being advanced by the Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Mississippi. Much weight is given to a single new piece of Corps-sponsored research on soil moisture that the agency uses to conclude that a large pumping plant will not cause present wetland areas to change to non-wetland classification. The Corps’s justification of the pumps on these wetland effects is presented in a new Supplemental EIS that could open the door for the Environmental Protection Agency to revisit and rescind its 2008 veto of the project under the Clean Water Act.

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How a typical permeable pavement works. Photo Credit: Dan Swenson, Graphics Editor, Nola.com

Stormwater Incentives: Permeable Pavement

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Flood Less New Orleans

Living in a city below sea level means living in a city often inundated with water and its effects. Stormwater incentive mechanisms are easy to implement and afford community members the flexibility and creativity to reduce the impacts of flooding and runoff in our communities. Across the US, communities have employed successful incentive models such

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A rooftop solar installation in the Florida panhandle.

Clean energy and energy democracy for the Gulf coast

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Hold Industry Accountable

Our society is the early stages of one of the greatest transitions in human history, as we move away from fossil fuels to a future of renewable energy. In that transition lies an epic battle over the terms and pace of that transition. It’s a battle that will determine who gets to access clean energy,how

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Louisiana (LDWF) Draft Oyster Strategic Plan

Louisiana’s 2020 Draft Oyster Management and Rehabilitation Plan – A Quick Look

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Conserve Gulf Resources, Louisiana Coast, Oysters

Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries recently introduced its new Draft Strategic Plan for Oyster Management and Rehabilitation. The plan has twelve initiatives, a 5-year time frame for implementation and will require a total budget of $132 million.

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The Yazoo Pumps are a bad deal for the Mississippi Delta

The Yazoo Pumps are a bad deal for the Mississippi Delta

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Protect Clean Water

We need your help to stop a project that would cost $400 million dollars, destroy 200,000 acres of wetlands, and only be 32% effective at stopping flooding—leaving 68% of the recently flooded Mississippi Delta vulnerable to future floods. The Yazoo Pumps simply don’t add up for communities impacted by flooding or for taxpayers.

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Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter

/ By / Advance Climate Justice

Healthy Gulf stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter Black lives matter.  Healthy Gulf stands in solidarity with Black people across the Gulf South and the U.S. as communities yet again watched an unarmed Black man slain at the hands of the police. His life mattered. To his family. To his children. To his friends.

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Louisiana has a Choice: In response to “‘We’re screwed’ in the New Orleans Advocate

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Conserve Gulf Resources, Hold Industry Accountable, Land Loss Lookout, Louisiana Coast, Protect Clean Water

In response to “‘We’re screwed’: The only question is how quickly Louisiana wetlands will vanish, study says” published May 22, 2020 by Mark Schlefstein

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Dr. Calvin Avant is starting a solar job training program in Pensacola, FL. The program targets low income and minority communities that suffer from higher unemployment rates.

From BP tragedy to solar opportunity: A conversation with Dr. Calvin Avant

/ By / Advance Climate Justice, Eastern Gulf Moratorium, Hold Industry Accountable

This year marks ten years since the 2010 BP oil disaster. As part of a memorial to those who lost their lives and the massive environmental,economic and social damages, Healthy Gulf is sharing a collection of stories and remembrances around key dates. On June 4, 2010, oil first began to wash ashore in Florida, and

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