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For the second year in a row, the Gulf Restoration Network partnered with the Voodoo Experience to educate festival attendees about the issue of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands crisis. Voodoo Experience is one of New Orleans’ largest and most popular musical festivals. As the festival’s official nonprofit partner, GRN worked with event organizers to educate performing […]

There is one thing the coal industry deserves credit for: they are persistent. Now that everyone is touting national security from every direction and trying to decrease our dependence on foreign oil, the coal industry has stepped in with the perfect solution, put coal in your gas tank! The technology is called coal-to-liquid, first developed

Alabama Governor Bob Riley put the final stake in the heart of open-loop LNG in the Gulf of Mexico. When he signaled he would veto the project, the foreign energy company sponsoring it pulled their permit application. This is big news for the marine fish populations out around the Pinnacles Reef area, and shows once

Back in July, I blogged that the second largest Dead Zone ever measured had developed in the Gulf.Though the Dead Zone was almost 8,000 square miles, you might be surprised to know thatLouisiana does not officially acknowledge that this polluted area exists!The New Jersey-sized Dead Zone is a real problem that threatens Louisiana’s fishing economy

I still remember the first time I saw oil and gas rigs from the beach. I’m a native and life-long Floridian, used to open vistas and sunsets not marred by industrial facilities offshore. I was on a road trip in college and visited Dauphin Island, Alabama and Grand Isle, Louisiana and was both amazed and

I’m sure with all the challenges this overactive hurricane season has presented, the New Orleans race for Congress is probably the last thing you have been thinking about. But that doesn’t change the fact that election day is fast approaching. October 4th is the primary – do you know who you’ll be supporting?GRN is excited

With just a few months left in office, it looks like the Bush Administration is angling for a big legacy: a legacy of increased extinctions! We need your help to get Congress to prevent the Bush extinction plan from becoming law.The Administration is proposing drastic changes to the Endangered Species Act that threaten to undermine

Four days ago, Hurricane Ike swept ashore across Galveston Island. The enormous storm whipped up the Gulf and brought massive storm surge destroying coastal communities along Texas’ northern coast and into Louisiana. While millions swelter without electricity and begin to clean up and repair their homes, the full extent of the damage is just beginning

This past week has been difficult for many of us in the Gulf. However, I have some great news to share! On September 2nd, the EPA took the final step to veto the Yazoo Pumps Project, an antiquated Army Corps of Engineers project that would have destroyed over 200,000 acres of wetlands in Mississippi, including

I hope everyone is safe, and staying dry. I’m typing this from my evacuation-vacation in Seattle, safe with my family.We’re all on pins and needles as we watch the storm batter our coast and communities. Instead of just being glued to cnn/weather channel, GRN friend and collaborator Walter Williams put his nervous energy to work