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Dispersants being applied on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.Photo from US Coast Guard. Yesterday, Gulf Restoration Network — along with Louisiana Shrimp Association, Florida Wildlife Federation, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Alaska-based Cook Inletkeeper, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Waterkeeper Alliance, and Sierra Club — filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]

On August 4, GRN joined people all around the world who stood along beaches, lakes, and parks to say no to expanded oil drilling and yes to clean water and safe energy. Hands Across the Sand is an international movement about protecting our coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife and fisheries.The accidents that continue to happen

Tomorrow, Saturday August 4, join Gulf Restoration Network and other groups for Hands Across the Sand, a rally to promote a clean energy economy for the Gulf coast and the globe.Join us to link “Hands Across the Sand” in the name of halting the expansion of dangerous oil drilling and protecting the Gulf. It’s time

Introducing the Flood Less New Orleans! CampaignWe all know that New Orleans has changed drastically in the wake of Hurricane Katrina 7 years ago. We’re surrounded by a $15 billion dollar hurricane risk reduction system, public schools management has seen wholesale changes, and the region’s awareness of the importance of coastal wetlands as natural storm

While most of our recent conversation about BP’s deepwater drilling disaster has been focused on the RESTORE Act, and successful efforts to legislatively direct the eventual Clean Water Act fines to Gulf ecosystem and economic restoration, new scientific studies are an important reminder that BP’s crude and corexit continue to have untold impacts on our

Public Service Announcement: when it comes to storm surge in south Louisiana, don’t Be in the Vee. And don’t let the Corps put you into one. Louisiana is still shaking from Isaac’s slow hit, and once again, coastal communities have been moved, coastal communities have lost everything, and coastal communities have been coated in industrial

The blue areas are those proposed for expansion. Graphic courtesy of the USACE.For years, community leaders and organizations in the Gulfport area have been fighting to make sure a proposed expansion of the Gulfport Port, and associated projects like a connector road do not harm communities and the surrounding environment. Among other things, they’ve questioned

Let’s not catch coal. Although skeptics remain, and there is still much to learn, Louisiana scientists have made great strides in learning how to put the Mississippi River back into its role as a land-builder. And although the Flood of 2011 was a missed opportunity, there have been some lessons learned. Sand is Land. A

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. Shale rock natural gas drilling rig in Pennsylvania. Photo courtesy of Ruhrfisch.In a May presentation, Jamie Crawford of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) revealed that oil and

It’s summer, and the second summer since BP changed the Gulf of Mexico forever. From the deep microbes to the highest mammals, nothing is the same. Something of our home is bouncing back but we know it will take time to reveal what we’ve lost.Among our worries is the population of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus,