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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 […]

Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana ” Gulf Restoration Network ” Lake Pontchartrain Basin FoundationSince Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has spent the last 3 years and over $23 million taxpayer dollars on the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Study (also known as the “Category 5 plan”). Our organizations worked

As six Senate committees take up climate legislation, much work remains to be done to gain support for a strong climate bill. Climate champions in the Senate are plotting their next moves this month, in hopes of producing legislative text after the August recess. Committee chairs will be working with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV)

Have you spoken with one of GRN’s canvassers yet?For the second summer in a row, GRN is engaging the public through an outreach-focused canvass campaign. Canvassing is an important way to build our membership, but it means more than simply signing up concerned Gulf Coast residents. Every home and every conversation is an opportunity to

Do you believe it’s almost been four years since Hurricane Katrina, then Rita rocked the Gulf Coast?We’ve seen the federal government respond to those twin disasters, and there have been moments of courage, and useful programs that address the needs of struggling communities, but largely, the response has been inadequate. From FEMA to the Corps

Florida’s economy, imperiled and fragile as it is, is directly dependent on tourism. Florida’s tourism industry relies heavily on the idea that Florida has clean beaches and lots of recreational fish to catch. Sunsets, charter boats, beach bars, and white sand blending with turquoise waters are the life blood of the Florida Dream. Florida’s economy,

The pelagic brown algae, Sargassum natans, is a regular visitor to the shores of the Texas Gulf coast. The floating seaweed is a habitat to numerous species of vertebrates and invertebrates, several of which are exclusive to the Sargassum. Many sports fisherman in the Gulf look for the “weed lines” , as more often than

Over the past week or so, GRN has been maligned by advocates of the Morganza to the Gulf hurricane risk reduction system, as opposing the project and therefore, not supporting the future of the Houma/Thibodaux area. In order to set the record straight, our Executive Director, Cyn Sarthou submitted this opinion piece to the Houma

This report is a coastal Louisiana game-changer.A couple of LSU researchers have weighed in on the ability of the Mississippi River to sustain our coastal wetlands, and the math isn’t good. Due to increased sea level rise, decreased sediment in the river, and our ever-subsiding coast, the Mississippi River estuarine wetlands aren’t long for this

It looks like we’re in for another big one. In July, the USGS reported that the nitrogen pollution delivered to the Gulf is among the highest measured. Recently this was followed up by three predictions regarding the size of the 2009 Gulf Dead Zone. One prediction made by Scavia and Liu predicts that the Dead