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For the past seven years GRN has worked with the Mississippi River Collaborative to get limits on nitrogen and phosphorus pollution, reduce the size of the Dead Zone, and generally fight for cleaner and healthier waters and wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin. Just this week, Matt and Andrew at GRN attended a three day […]

This past I enjoyed the wind and waves with our amazing supporters aboard the Capt. Pete out of Gulfport, Mississippi. With over 100 guests in attendence, this was one of the largest GRN boat parties yet! Even the gulls and dolphins joined us. We snacked on delicious brisket, floral salad, and a Gulf themed cake

This article is excerpted from Wave Makers News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here. Wakulla Springs State Park. Photo courtesy of Bev Norton.Florida springs and rivers need protection – protection they are not getting from water management districts, the state, or the federal

GRN has been engaged in systematic monitoring and reporting of oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico since April of 2010, with hundreds of field monitoring trips by air, sea and land. As such, GRN was invited to become a member of the Gulf Monitoring Consortium (GMC) which we formally joined in January, 2013. The

Audio Post: Paul Davidson, Executive Director of the Black Bear Conservation Coalition Paul Davidson, Executive Director of the Black Bear Conservation Coalition tells the story of his struggle to keep the LA Black Bear from going extinct, and the limitations of the ability of the Endangered Species Act to keep the Bear from going extinct.re-posted

Small dredges for shallow water work smarter. Down in South LaFourche, Windell Curole, takes his levees seriously. Terrebonne and Barataria basins experience the highest land loss rates of the coast, and are ground zero for historic oil and gas damages. Even before we consider the subsidence that the receding delta is experiencing, the LaRose to

For a fifth summer, Gulf Restoration Network will once again be heading into communities throughout the Gulf region to engage the public on the very serious issues facing the Gulf of Mexico.GRN advocates will be knocking on doors and initiating thousands of conversations about how to hold BP accountable for the damage caused by their

This article is excerpted from Wave Makers News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here.Coal and petroleum coke pollution in the Mississippi River. Photo courtesy of Dubinsky Photography for LeanWeb.org and LMRK.org. Flight courtesy of Southwings.org.If you pay attention to environmental and global warming

This guest blog is by legal intern Steven Rothermel, a third year law student at Tulane who has been part of GRN’s legal observer team for the BP trial The first week of the trial to determine civil liability for BP, Transocean, and Halliburton in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster came to a

Last Tuesday and the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council came down for public meetings about how they plan to move forward with restoring the Gulf. In January, they releasedThe Path Forward to Restoring the Gulf Coast, a simple six-page snapshot of what we need to do to ensure the long-term environmental health and economic prosperity