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It starts with a little queasiness as the early storm predictions roll in, then a tinge of distracted apprehension when the Corps of Engineers give their update on the state of the ‘risk reduction system.’ Tax-free shopping for supplies on Memorial Day dries out my mouth a bit, but June 1st is when I really […]

From Left to Right: Rachel Cohen, Steve Bradberry, Jeffrey Buchanan, Michele Roberts, Johanna Polsenberg, Vaness Hamilton, Casi Callaway, Cyn Sarthou, Terese Collins, Brenda Dardar Robichaux, Josh Pelletier, Angel TroungMay 23-24, thirteen Gulf residents descended upon Washington, DC to press national lawmakers to help restore and protect the Gulf of Mexico region in the aftermath of

Even as the Senate grilled oil company CEO’s earlier this month about the uber-profitable industry’s $4 billion-a-year taxpayer subsidies, Obama promised to bring more oil and gas reserves online and the House quietly passed HR1231, a bill otherwise known as “Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act” .On May 12th, the House passed HR1231 to literally

Oil, spattered across our Front Lines of Defense Cathy Norman, Secretary Treasurer of the Edward Wisner Donation, speaks to me about the presence and persistence of oil on Fourchon Beach and throughout the Wisner donation. The sandstone Cathy holds are mottled with brown, degraded oil from the BP disaster.On Tuesday Jonathan and I traveled to

According to a stakeholders call today with the Corps, the Mississippi has crested in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Likewise, the River crested today in Vicksburg, MS and will crest tomorrow at Red River Landing, which is between the Old River Control Structure and the Morganza Floodway. Hopefully the River will start going down in

Yesterday, I hopped in a seaplane at Southern Seaplanes in Belle Chase and flew north along the Mississippi River. On board with me on this Josephine Billups (of the band Sassafrass) sponsored flight was Matt Rota, GRN’s Science and Water Policy Director, and Randy Perez, a videographer from New Orleans who has accompanied me on

As the pictures below will clearly show, it was a very sad day yesterday on the Louisiana coast. Myself, a coworker, Scott Eustis, and videographer, Randy Perez, were accompanied by Forrest Travirca and Cathy Norman of the Edward Wisner Donation Land Trust to an area of privately owned land adjacent to Fourchon Beach and Elmer’s

As bays are slowly opened at the head of the Morganza Floodway to manage Mississippi River flows, Louisiana residents in the Floodway are retreating from the rising floodwaters, like those in the Birds Point Floodway evacuated prior to the controlled demolition of levees in Southeast Missouri. This raises the question: Why are we causing flooding

Guest Blog from Nancy Paraskevopoulos, 1 Mississippi Campaign Organizer, www.1mississippi.net.The Mississippi River runs through the heart of our nation. It’s a source for jobs, wildlife, recreation and cultural icons. But pollution from agriculture, development and industry is wrecking our Big River. This pollution threatens our drinking water, quality of life and our economies. This pollution

Even though the Mississippi River has crested in Memphis, we are going to see rising waters along the Atchafalaya River, due to the opening of the Morganza Floodway and high flows through the Old River Control Structure. Throughout Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, thousands of acres have been flooded and hundreds (if not thousands) of