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Whew! After months of negotiations, wrangling and missteps, a Senate bill has finally been introduced to use BP’s clean water act fines to jumpstart restoration efforts in the Gulf. Kudos to Senators Landrieu, Boxer, Vitter, Shelby, and every other member of the Gulf delegation who came together around this much-needed bill. In these days of […]

GRN has been organizing our best activists across the nation to take their support off-line and host a movie screening in their home or community venue. Folks have been hosting Defend the Gulf movie screenings for the past 4 years to educate family and friends about Louisiana’s coastal wetlands crisis. This year, the focus of

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. Mississippi has a long history of taking federal dollars for something good like environmental restoration or low-income housing and spending it on something environmentally damaging. One of the most

The NRDA Early Restoration Project Selection is Underway -Which Candidates Will Make the Cut?Our natural resource trustees are drafting a restoration plan for the Gulf Coast that will be paid for by BP and the other polluters through the Natural Resources Damages Assessment (NRDA) process. Many projects have been submitted, and many are posted online

As Americans, we take for granted that the water we drink, swim in, and fish in is clean. In the not so recent past, this was not the case. Rivers were catching on fire and many rivers and lakes were dead. To a large extent, we owe our clean water to Congress passing the Clean

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. Satellite image of sediment plumes coming from the flooded Mississippi River, taken on May 17, 2011. Photo courtesy of NASA.Due to heavy rains and snow melt from North Dakota

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you know that a year after the start of the BP drilling disaster, BP’s oil is still in our marsh, still affecting our coast and our communities. You’ve likely seen our photos of the impacts and the inadequate clean up and containment response, maybe watched a video,

This morning, Scott Eustis, GRN’s Coastal Wetland Specialist, and I boarded a small Cessna aircraft at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans and headed out on a 4 hour flight path. I was invited by Bonny Schumaker, the pilot for On Wings of Care to help document Whale sharks in the Gulf that had been tagged

The stand against coastal and offshore drilling continued on June 25th along beaches and at community events worldwide. Thousands of cities around the world participated in last Saturday’s “Hands Across the Sand” program, including many along the Gulf coast. Participants included local residents, tourists, elected officials and business owners, many hurt by the devastation of

On June 11th, I and 19 others canoed down the Leaf River near Hattiesburg, MS to observe first hand the South Hattiesburg Waste Treatment lagoon and its impact on the health of the river. If you have never been on the Leaf River, it is a beautiful place; its riverbanks are adorned by a mix