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James Hurtt speaking on the bus after the hearing. On Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure of joining a bus load of fired-up Mississippi Power ratepayers from the coast on a trip to Kemper County, Mississippi – the proposed site for a massive new dirty lignite coal mine. If this huge mine, and Mississippi Power’s […]

Ashley Guidry from Lafayette, LA is the raffle winner for the Rediscover New Orleans Aveda Earth Month Drawing 2011. Congratulations Ashley! The Grand Prize includes:Two nights at the Intercontinental New Orleans and brunch for two$500 gift card on the airline of your choice$200 gift certificate for dinner at Lilette$150 gift certificate for dinner at Gautreau’sThanks

Crawfishing is drying up:Illegal roads are choking the bayous of the Atchafalaya BasinDean Wilson of Atchafalaya Basinkeeper invited us to take a low-water tour with Jody Meche of the Louisiana Crawfish Producer’s Association West, to see the challenges healthy wetlands face in their neck of the woods. Illegal access roads are damming up the bayous

The shaded areas represent lignite coal reserves.Strip mining for lignite coal is a nasty process. Thankfully, few of us have had to directly bear witnesses to how it impacts communities, and nearby rivers, streams and wetlands, but that could change if a North Dakota mining company is allowed to move forward with its proposal for

76 weeks after the Deepwater Horizon exploded then sank into the Gulf of Mexico, triggering the worst accidental marine oil spill in U.S. history both the House and the Senate have bills introduced which would direct the historic Clean Water Act fines from BP’s deepwater drilling disaster to tackle the ongoing challenges facing the Gulf.In

Jean Lafitte National Park and EPA lead the way to healing oil injuries to our coastal marshesTo heal a patient, first stop the bleeding. After decades of Coastal Restoration, Louisiana still has not applied the pressure needed to restore the most obvious damage to its marshes. Over the decades, these open wounds have cost the

Photo by Anthony SchoeneckerOn October 9, GRN supporters came out to Mondo in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans to attend the fifth annual fundraiser, Defend Our Coast, Defend Our Culture. Funds raised from the event support GRN’s ongoing fight for healthy waters, sustainable coastal areas, and vibrant offshore ecosystems that are essential to resilient

Last week, the White House’s Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force (Task Force) took a significant steptowards restoring the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of BP’s oil drilling disaster, but there is still, of course, a long road to restoration. Created by the President and lead by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Task Force

Hattiesburg South lagoons, as seen from space.Photo courtesy of Google Maps. Last week, the city of Hattiesburg, Mississippi held a press conference and released a statement acknowledging that the city’s South Sewage lagoons are “under enormous pressure” and have “quite simply…not kept pace with the tremendous growth in population and industry” that the city has

Come out to Mondo in Lakeview this Sunday and join us for an evening of great discussion, food, and music to benefit Gulf Restoration Network, and learn how your contributions can help protect and restore the natural resources of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. With an exclusive focus on the ecological health of the Gulf