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Lake Charles, LA – On the afternoon of Saturday, June 3rd, as many prepared to enjoy the weekend with family and friends, an unanticipated environmental emergency occurred. As rain began to fall, lightning struck a tanker at Calcasieu Refining, igniting a massive fire. The tanker contained around 46,000 barrels of naphtha, a flammable hydrocarbon product. 

The ongoing saga of Manna Farms and their attempt to place an industrial-scale fish farm off Pensacola Beach, FL points-out an inescapable fact about fish farms

Here in the Gulf, we understand the importance of the Mississippi. The Gulf’s ecosystem and communities depend on it for drinking water, navigation, fishing, recreation, agriculture, manufacturing, and restoring our disappearing wetlands. However, the Mississippi is often looked at as a polluted river, often used as the nation’s sewer. While there is some truth to

In the over 25 years that Healthy Gulf has worked across the Gulf region, it seems like every passing year brings some type of new threat to our waterways and communities. The most recent one is a plan for industrial-scale finfish farms in the open waters of the Gulf—giant cages where millions of pounds of

I want to share some big, yet bittersweet, news. After 26 years, I have decided to retire as Executive Director of Healthy Gulf at the end of December 2022.