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ARMY CORPS PORK IN STIMULUS?

Bruce Alpert with the Times-Picayune wrote a great story about Army Corps money in the stimulus package.The Senate Appropriations Committee has included $4.6 billion in money for Army Corps projects. Unfortunately, very little of this money appears to be going to the kind of environmental restoration projects that the Gulf Coast desperately needs. It appears […]

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WAVEMAKER’S NEWS: NAVIGATING TOWARDS DISASTER

Over the last few months, GRN’s Healthy Waters Team has been busy fighting to keep the rivers, bayous and streams of the Gulf region safe for ourselves and future generations. We’ve been waging this battle on several fronts from opposing an ill-conceived Army Corps of Engineers plan in Louisiana to protecting coastal Mississippi communities, defending

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Say Yes to Clean Energy

On December 22, over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge came cascading through Eastern Tennessee. The tidal wave of sludge toppled houses and dirtied rivers and streams. This toxic coal ash has been stored in an open 40-acre pond next to the 50-year-old power plant. According to State authorities, after the spill there were

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NEW CORPS COASTAL STUDY, SIGH: NOLA TIMES PICAYUNE

GRN would never advocate rushing into coastal protection and restoration. We’re certainly opposed to the “Great Wall of Louisiana” approach to storm defense. But we feel a great sense of urgency to get big restoration projects underway sooner rather than later.We therefore greet this news of a new Corps of Engineers investigation into coastal protection

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CYPRESS OP-EDS IN GEORGIA

Happy New Year! I hope everyone’s 2009 is off to a great start.As I was wading through all the emails I received during two weeks of holiday vacation, I found a couple that bode well for cypress forests this year!A fellow cypress protector in Georgia, Gordon Rogers, the Satilla Riverkeeper, had his opinion column published

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