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This article is excerpted from Wave Maker’s News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here. Nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from farms and cities across much of the country (and parts of Canada) eventually dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, contributing to the Dead Zone. […]

This past Saturday the sun was shining, the hunters were scavenging, and the beer was flowing at the final stop of NOLA Brewing’s 4th annual Easter Keg Hunt. The search began at the Howlin’ Wolf, and led over 300 contestants all around the Warehouse District of New Orleans. From the Confederate Museum to the lighthouse

Way, way down at the end of the road, the Mississippi River has broken through its barriers to flood the marshes of Bohemia. On April 7th, we hiked down the flooded road to take a peek, and took the kite with us to gain some perspective. For the past few years, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin

The Mississippi Supreme Court recently ruled against the dirty, expensive, and unnecessary Kemper coal mine and plant. Now the Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC) is blatantly defying that ruling. Call on the PSC members to deny the permit for Kemper Coal:http://grn.convio.net/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=367Last I drove up to Jackson for a PSC hearing where two of the three

It has been nearly two years since the BP drilling disaster began in the Gulf, killing 11 people, ruining countless lives, and severely damaging the Gulf’s precious natural resources. On April 2nd, Scott Eustis and I accompanied a television crew down to northern Barataria bay, Louisiana to collect oil and soil samples from sensitive Spartina

Remember the Gulf this Earth Day . . . and this entire Earth Month!April is Earth Month, and throughout the country, people will be celebrating the wonders of our natural environment and working hard to protect the planet. For the Gulf, April is also a month of memorializing the on-going BP oil disaster that began

This article is excerpted from Wave Maker’s News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here. Views like this one, taken from Alabama’s Dauphin Island, could soon mar the horizon of Mississippi’s wilderness barrier islands. Photo by Harold Wright.During the heart of last year’s holiday

liquid oil in the Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area, at the mouth of the Mississippi River. March 27, 2012. Photo courtesy CPRA.Three weeks ago GRN was busting out the bubbly over a significant step forward in efforts to bring BP’s sure-to-be-historic Clean Water Act fines back to the Gulf to fund ecoystem restoration initatives.Perhaps

This article is excerpted from Wave Maker’s News, our quarterly update on all things water in the Gulf of Mexico, check out the full newsletter here.Across the country, at a rate of about 40 a year, communities are tearing down old dams because of safety and environmental concerns and enormously expensive maintenance costs. Yet, this

Given that the Gulf has been the nation’s energy sacrifice zone for decades, GRN has a more-than-passing interest in the ongoing debate about expanding drilling, especially as currently framed by the GOP contenders, as a method of decreasing the price you pay at the pump.Because of that interest, I’m going to be representing GRN on