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With the news that the NBA was backing Tom Benson’s decision to change his team’s name from the Hornets to the Pelicans, Louisiana’s state bird was back in the news. It had faded from the nation’s attention for a while, after images of the majestic bird drenched in oil seared themselves into our retinas during […]

Last Scott, Jonathan and I led a caravan down to Myrtle Grove, LA. In the car behind us were seven women; the top Aveda fundraising team in the Gulf region, from Houston, TX. Through Aveda’s Earth month partnership with GRN, salons across the Gulf ramp up to a fundraising frenzy to support our work for

The dusky gopher frog, also known as the Mississippi gopher frog. Photo courtesy of USFWS.The dusky gopher frog, also known as the Mississippi gopher frog, is a highly imperiled species currently known to existing in only four sites in coastal Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that less than 100 adult dusky gopher

Will the Corps and the state of Louisiana starve the Delta at the whim of oil and gas?In 2011, a swollen Mississippi River re-connected itself with the marshes of Bohemia, without any help from the Corps–but it forgot to ask Shaw for a permit to restore our coast. After 2 years, the oil company that

Two men holding an endangered gulf sturgeon, much like the twenty-six killed in the Pearl River Fish Kill. Photo by Byrd Vernon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe Federal Government has finally begun to hold Temple-Inland, Inc., now a subsidiary of International Paper Company, accountable for the damage they incurred on the Pearl River. As covered

In the last field monitoring trip in the Gulf of 2012, GRN organized a boat tour for some of our major supporters to get a first-hand look at a coastal restoration project already taking place as well as areas where serious problems persist thanks to coastal erosion and ongoing oil and gas impacts, including the

Disturbed beach in Pass Christian that was sacrificed to a questionable CIAP project. Mississippi Marine Resources Department (MDMR) executive director Dr. Bill Walker was suspended without pay on Friday December 28th 2012 by his agency’s Commissioners. Reinstatement will depend on the results of investigations by state and federal auditors and the FBI. Walker’s state agency

In big news for the Gulf, the Department of Justice announced a plea agreement with Transocean, the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, for their role in the 2010 BP drilling disaster. It’s a doozy, with the company pleading guilty to criminal environmental behavior, and agreeing to pay $1.4 billion in fines,

Corexit:: the more we know the more we regretA new modelling study shows the ineffectiveness of deepsea dispersant Much has been made of the unprecedented use of the dispersant Corexit in the 2010 disaster, especially the unheard-of deepsea application. We at GRN have sued EPA because they backed down and approved the use of Corexit