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#MakeBPpay! Citizens gather outside the federal courthouse in New Orleans before the trial against BP begins. $16 billion? Peanuts$31 billion? Closer$50 billion? Now we’re talking.Today, before opening remarks began in the “Environmental Trial of the Century” that will determine just how much BP and their partners must pay for the destruction they have wrought in […]

Citizens wait at the microphone to speak up on restoration at the First meeting of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council in DecemberSo much has happened in the last twelve months that is finally moving us closer to making ecosystem restoration a reality. Last year, the RESTORE Act passed, ensuring 80% of the Clean Water

This blog has been cross-posted from Public Laboratory. To see the original article, click here by eustatic on February 1, 2013 10:59Photo by Mary Queen of Vietnam CDCDaniel Nguyen of MQVN discussed best practices for citizen science during the BP oil disaster–specifically citizen science that the fishermen of Village d’Est conducted with embedded Tulane University

This week, the Mississippi state legislature is planning to vote on a $1 billion bond, paid for by Mississippi Power’s ratepayers, to fund the dirty, expensive, and unnecessary Kemper coal plant. This is on top of $2.8 billion already approved by the Public Service Commission to be paid by ratepayers! If you are a Mississippi

On January 28, Governor Bryant released the Go Coast 2020 Final Report, a blueprint for how Mississippi will spend its share of RESTORE Act fines from the BP disaster. Over the last few months, GRN has been working with our partners in Mississippi to make sure that this report truly benefits Mississippi’s coast and communities.

With the news that the NBA was backing Tom Benson’s decision to change his team’s name from the Hornets to the Pelicans, Louisiana’s state bird was back in the news. It had faded from the nation’s attention for a while, after images of the majestic bird drenched in oil seared themselves into our retinas during

Last Scott, Jonathan and I led a caravan down to Myrtle Grove, LA. In the car behind us were seven women; the top Aveda fundraising team in the Gulf region, from Houston, TX. Through Aveda’s Earth month partnership with GRN, salons across the Gulf ramp up to a fundraising frenzy to support our work for

The dusky gopher frog, also known as the Mississippi gopher frog. Photo courtesy of USFWS.The dusky gopher frog, also known as the Mississippi gopher frog, is a highly imperiled species currently known to existing in only four sites in coastal Mississippi. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that less than 100 adult dusky gopher

Will the Corps and the state of Louisiana starve the Delta at the whim of oil and gas?In 2011, a swollen Mississippi River re-connected itself with the marshes of Bohemia, without any help from the Corps–but it forgot to ask Shaw for a permit to restore our coast. After 2 years, the oil company that

Two men holding an endangered gulf sturgeon, much like the twenty-six killed in the Pearl River Fish Kill. Photo by Byrd Vernon, U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceThe Federal Government has finally begun to hold Temple-Inland, Inc., now a subsidiary of International Paper Company, accountable for the damage they incurred on the Pearl River. As covered