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Mississippi River Campaign Launches New Ways to Take Action

Check out this guest blog from our friends at the 1 Mississippi Campaign and visit their new, interactive website.Visit. Learn. Tell Congress what’s up. The newly redesigned website for the 1 Mississippi campaign urges visitors to get involved in a great variety of ways to protect America’s greatest River. The site–www.1mississippi.org–is designed to reach a […]

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Pearl River Fish Kill Culprit Reopens with Few New Protections

NEW ORLEANS While the Pearl River is still recovering from the discharge of “black liquor” and resulting massive fish kill, LDEQ has recently authorized Temple-Inland paper the industry that has admitted to causing the fish kill to resume operations and once again discharge pollutants into the Pearl.In response to this premature plant reopening, Gulf Restoration

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The Gulf Coast Restoration Forum: Deciding how to save Louisiana’s coastline

Coastal Restoration PanelOn August 12th I attended a Coastal Restoration/Protection Forum in Davant, Louisiana called “Getting the Jobs & Water Right.” The Gulf Restoration Network was a sponsor of this event and I was there to learn about what the concerns and opportunities were for coastal communities as we envision restoration of these critical areas.We

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Breaking News–Bird’s Eye View: GRN Spots Oil Near BP’s Macondo Well

This morning I set out on a long flight to investigate reports of oil sightings near BP’s Macondo well, the site where the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank into the Gulf killing 11 workers and spewing at least 4.9 million barrels of oil. Whenever I here reports like this I tend to get antsy and

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