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It has been four years since the man-made failure of Louisiana’s hurricane protection system left New Orleans completely devastated. Decades of coastal erosion spurred on by global warming, the activities of the oil and gas industries, and the inadequate levee system designed by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers allowed Hurricane Katrina to penetrate deep […]

Hurricane Ike, the 3rd most costly hurricane on record devastated the upper Texas coast on September 13, 2008. It was a category 2 hurricane with a category 4 storm surge, 112 people were killed and 26 are still missing. Approximately 3500 houses were destroyed on the Bolivar Peninsula. The massive storm surge flooded the inland

Dear Senator Landrieu,I write this letter to you as a Florida resident of over 40 years, and as a lover of the Gulf of Mexico. While I respect your position as a United States Senator and believe you promote policies which you believe to be in the national interest, I am writing to urge to

We’re excited to announce that we’re over 115 home or community screenings of the powerful documentary, “Paradise Faded: The Fight for Louisiana” on or around the Katrinaversary, August 29th. From Puerto Rico to Portland, our activists, bolstered by support from Sierra Club groups, Tulane and LSU alumni clubs and others (perhaps recruited by REM, Galactic

Thanks to everyone who worked on and participated in the GRN Florida Summer Outreach Campaign! While folks are still knocking on doors in Louisiana, the Tampa canvass office wound down last week. Our intrepid canvassers pounded the pavement from Tampa to Sarasota to Tallahassee to launch GRN’s “Defend Florida’s Gulf Coast” campaign and build the

The Mississippi Chapter of the Sierra Club opposes the highway department’s proposed alternative C four-laning of highway 15 on several grounds.Though a four-lane evacuation route out of Biloxi is inevitable, we cannot support a new “real estate road” cutting across the massive flood plain at the Harrison-Jackson County line. The massive disruption and damage to

As folks may know, GRN has been involved with working to improve the Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system since 2001, urging for levee alignments which will allow for as much intact coastal marsh area in front of the levee toe as possible. Despite our efforts, momentum has developed around an alignment that would significantly impact estuarine marsh,

Well the folks at LUMCON have finished their annual measurement of the Dead Zone that forms in the Gulf each year. On the surface, it looks like good news: it is much smaller than was predicted (see my previous blog on these predictions).However, according to the researchers, while the areal size of the Dead Zone

GRN is proud to be partnering with What About Blue? An education and fundraising effort to support solutions for the world water crisis. Novice kayaker (not sure why we’re so into paddlers) Kevin Lilly has committed to paddling the length of the Mississippi River to call attention to the lack of safe, fresh water around

If menhaden are the most important fish in the sea, then why were over 400,000 of them spilled into the Gulf of Mexico last Tuesday? Nearly half a million menhaden, or pogies, as they are commonly known, were spilled into the Gulf near Long Beach and Pass Christian. The spill site resulted in an oil