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View of drilling rig and platforms, approximatelly 1.4 miles from Alabama’s Dauphin Island. Photo credit Harold Wright.On I joined a group of business owners and conservationists at the Yacht Harbor in Gulfport, Mississippi to speak out against a proposal to open up state waters to oil and gas drilling and production. Check out an article […]

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.Fillman’s Bayou, with a kingfisher perched on the branch in the foreground.Pasco County’s stretch of the Nature Coast is a truly special place. Home to an amazing coastal ecosystem of

The coastal crisis in Southern Louisiana is at a tipping point. We continue to lose a football field of wetlands every hour, or 16 square miles a year. If we fail to adequately address the problem, that rate could skyrocket to 51 square miles every year, jeopardizing our very way of life. Fortunately, Louisiana has

When you are cut, you bleed. The lacerations into the marsh carved by canals bleed our wetlands’ ability to provide for us. Oil and gas canals, most of which only access dried up or abandoned wells, have been dredged through tens of thousands of acres of marsh in the Louisiana Delta.These canals have cut up

Don’t see any oil or gas platforms on the horizon along Mississippi’s coast? That could change soon, unless you take action now to tell Governor Phil Bryant and the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) to reject a plan to open up state waters to drilling and production.It’s up to us to prevent the marred views of

The Louisiana Master Plan launches us into the future: Where will we land?Restoring Louisiana’s wetlands, North America’s Great Delta, is a national issue, and Louisiana has taken a leadership role. We are excited that Louisiana is ramping up piecemeal projects into larger scale restoration that truly addresses the crisis, and is pursuing a long-term vision

In Louisiana state waters, oil and gas leaks are a constant threat. This photo was taken in Breton Sound in August 2011. Late in December, the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) published rules on seismic exploration and leasing for oil and gas in Mississippi waters south of the Barrier Islands. The rules would allow drilling in

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.GRN’s Executive Director Cynthia Sarthou speaking at the release of “Sunshine on the Gulf” with, from left to right, Nathalie Walker (Advocates for Environmental Human Rights), Jill Mastrototaro (Sierra Club),

On behalf of the Gulf Restoration Board of Directors and Staff, we wish you and your family a happy New Year! 2011 was a somewhat successful year for the Gulf because of supporters like you. As was plain from the blog posted by Dan Favre, GRN’s Communication Director, after our staff retreat, in the last

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.Treatment pond at the Temple-Inland factory. GRN photo, flight provided by Southwings.In August 2011, the Temple-Inland paper company in Bogalusa, LA dumped a massive amount of pollution into the Pearl