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Oil, spattered across our Front Lines of Defense Cathy Norman, Secretary Treasurer of the Edward Wisner Donation, speaks to me about the presence and persistence of oil on Fourchon Beach and throughout the Wisner donation. The sandstone Cathy holds are mottled with brown, degraded oil from the BP disaster.On Tuesday Jonathan and I traveled to […]

According to a stakeholders call today with the Corps, the Mississippi has crested in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Likewise, the River crested today in Vicksburg, MS and will crest tomorrow at Red River Landing, which is between the Old River Control Structure and the Morganza Floodway. Hopefully the River will start going down in

Yesterday, I hopped in a seaplane at Southern Seaplanes in Belle Chase and flew north along the Mississippi River. On board with me on this Josephine Billups (of the band Sassafrass) sponsored flight was Matt Rota, GRN’s Science and Water Policy Director, and Randy Perez, a videographer from New Orleans who has accompanied me on

As the pictures below will clearly show, it was a very sad day yesterday on the Louisiana coast. Myself, a coworker, Scott Eustis, and videographer, Randy Perez, were accompanied by Forrest Travirca and Cathy Norman of the Edward Wisner Donation Land Trust to an area of privately owned land adjacent to Fourchon Beach and Elmer’s

As bays are slowly opened at the head of the Morganza Floodway to manage Mississippi River flows, Louisiana residents in the Floodway are retreating from the rising floodwaters, like those in the Birds Point Floodway evacuated prior to the controlled demolition of levees in Southeast Missouri. This raises the question: Why are we causing flooding

Guest Blog from Nancy Paraskevopoulos, 1 Mississippi Campaign Organizer, www.1mississippi.net.The Mississippi River runs through the heart of our nation. It’s a source for jobs, wildlife, recreation and cultural icons. But pollution from agriculture, development and industry is wrecking our Big River. This pollution threatens our drinking water, quality of life and our economies. This pollution

Even though the Mississippi River has crested in Memphis, we are going to see rising waters along the Atchafalaya River, due to the opening of the Morganza Floodway and high flows through the Old River Control Structure. Throughout Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, thousands of acres have been flooded and hundreds (if not thousands) of

Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee hosted the CEOs of the 5 largest oil companies to answer a few questions about the need for continued subsidies and tax breaks in the face of $100+ per barrel oil prices and subsequent high gas prices.By all accounts it was quite a show, with Conoco’s CEO refusing to apologize

The Mississippi River continues to rise in Louisiana, as do people’s concerns. As of today (1:00 pm), the Mississippi River has reached 17.08 ft. at the New Orleans gauge, and reports of small seeps in the levees, including along the French Quarter, have been reported.River Gauge at New Orleans this morningThe question weighing on everyone’s

On several occasions I’ve witnessed the awesome power of the Mississippi River; the most striking was the flood of 1993. At the time, I helped fill sand bags in an ultimately futile effort to save Valmeyer, IL, a small farming community down the bluff where I went to school.Now I am in New Orleans and