In June, the President created an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force to develop a first-ever national ocean policy.If you’ve been paying attention to our coast and oceans for a while, this may sound a bit familiar. Back in 2003 and 2004 two separate commissions made recommendations on actions needed to help protect our coasts and […]
WHITE HOUSE COMES TO NOLA AND THE GULF COAST Read More »
The Gulf of Mexico is an amazing natural treasure. From deep water corals far off shore, to miles of seagrasses hugging our coasts, we have diverse habitats which can help spawn enormous fish populations. Unfortunately, we haven’t always followed scientific advice to ensure that there will be enough fish for our great-grandkids to catch. From
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John Snell from our NOLA Fox affiliate reports on the state’s land-building progress. Is it possible that this year we WON’T lose a football field of wetlands every 45 minutes?Now we just need to start putting back the Rhode Island we’ve lost in the last 100 years…Aaron Viles is GRN’s Campaign Director
Last week, I had the opportunity to go to Des Moines for the Hypoxia Task Force Meeting. This task force, made up of federal and state agencies, was first convened in the late 90’s to find solutions to the growing Dead Zone in the Gulf. Over the past decade, little action has come out of
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” The Grand Prize has been awarded to the short film, “The Human Cost,” by Edward Holub and Christian Roselund. The film highlights Hurricane Gustav’s devastating impact on the Native American Pointe Au Chien Tribe and the residents of Chauvin, LA, juxtaposed with the impacts of the oil and gas industry’s destructive footprint on Louisiana’s
On September 20, our Louisiana fundraising event took place at Bayona in the French Quarter and raised significant funds for the campaigns of the Gulf Restoration Network. Ivor van Heerden talked about current issues facing Louisiana’s wetlands. The seventy-five attendees enjoyed samplings of hors d’oeurves by Chef Susan Spicer and her staff, listened to music
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In 2007, the state of Mississippi was granted $600+ million in federal Katrina relief funds to solve sewage and water quality problems exposed by the storm. While much of this money will go to recovery projects, the state wants to use some of these taxpayer dollars to subsidize developers’ projects that threaten Mississippi’s streams, wildlife,
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Tomorrow is the last day to apply to be a GRN intern this fall! I’ve posted the necessary info below, along with an inspiring write up from April Wilson, who worked with us earlier this year.The Gulf Restoration Network is looking for student leaders to get their campus and community involved in the fight to
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This week, GRN released its “Clean Up Your Act!” report card, which graded each of the Gulf states on how well it protects state waters. The report points out problems in state policies that fail to safeguard Gulf waters for swimming and fishing. For example, no Gulf state has numeric standards that would reduce nitrogen
GRN REPORT CARD MAKES WAVES IN GULF STATES Read More »
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
KATRINA: Four Years Later, Lessons Unlearned Read More »