Gulf Coast land loss could add up to $350 billion by 2030
October 20, 2010
The Times-Picayune
Economic losses along the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama caused by rising seas, subsidence and hurricane damage could total $350 billion by 2030, if no steps are taken to counteract the effects of subsidence and global warming, according to a new report commissioned by Entergy Corp. and the America's WETLAND Foundation.
Meeting pushes wetland issues
October 19, 2010
The Advocate
It’s not additional research, but political will that is needed to make the Mississippi River work for the benefit of all interests in south Louisiana.
An up-close look at the oil spill's impact
October 20, 2010
My Fox Tampa Bay
Six months ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana and changed the Gulf of Mexico as we know it, beginning a spill of 200 million gallons of oil into the water.
Oil cleanup not over in Louisiana's Bay Jimmy
October 18, 2010
USA Today
It's hard to imagine that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis is over in this small body of water about 40 miles south of New Orleans.
Tulane, Loyola host concert for oil-spill relief
October 1, 2010
The Hullabaloo
The Tulane and Loyola student governments will host Concert with a Cause Nov. 6.
Northshore restoration project could help oil spill affected marsh
September 29,2010
WWL
On land, in water and within the muck: plugs of marsh grass planted on the Northshore that could end up helping restore marshes hit by the oil spill on the Southshore.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar surprises volunteer marsh grass planters with visit
September 25,2010
Times Picayune
The 55 volunteers who signed up to plant marsh grass in the Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday did so without knowing that U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would stop by the St. Tammany Parish site to plant a few clumps of grass himself.
Oil spill enters new phase: restoring the Gulf, learning from the disaster
August 06, 2010
The Times-Picayune
With the injection of cement into the Macondo well on Thursday promising a permanent end to the unprecedented release of hundreds of millions of gallons of oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling accident, the focus has turned to how to best remove the remaining oil from the Gulf of Mexico and the coastal beaches and wetlands, and how to identify and mitigate the spill's short-term and long-term economic and environmental effects.
August 6, 2010
The Advocate
BP finished cementing its 2 1/2-mile-deep ruptured well Thursday, in an action the federal government says “will virtually assure us there’s no chance of oil leaking into the environment.”
August 05, 2010
The Times-Picayune
Every day during the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, contractors sprayed an average 140,000 pounds of Corexit dispersant onto oil slicks on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and into the oil being released a mile below.
August 5, 2010
USA Today
Maybe BP's infamous Macondo oil well will yet rise from the grave like Jason in Friday the 13th, but all signs are that BP's "static kill" has stopped the blowout for good. If not, a relief well will do the job very soon.
Efforts to save Gulf coastline slog on in face of massive oil disasterJuly 18, 2010
Times Picayune
It was immediately apparent that walking upright wasn't going to work. With each step, the merciless muck sucked every boot, sandal or shoe into the depths -- and didn't want to give it back.
Officials: St. Bernard Oil Sightings On The Rise
July 11, 2010
WDSU
Officials said Sunday that weather has allowed St. Bernard Parish oil spill operations to conduct more thorough scouting and reconnaissance in parish waters over the past 48 hours.
Please, don’t JUST DO SOMETHING
July 10, 2010
Houma Today
Scientists and politicians are at odds over what, if anything, to do to prevent more oil from the BP spill from soiling islands and wetlands in Terrebonne, Lafourche and other areas along the Gulf Coast.
Officials: St. Bernard Oil Sightings On The Rise
July 11, 2010
WDSU
Weather Allows Oil Spill Operations To Conduct Thorough Scouting
Please, don’t JUST DO SOMETHING
July 10, 2010
Houma Today
Scientists and politicians are at odds over what, if anything, to do to prevent more oil from the BP spill from soiling islands and wetlands in Terrebonne, Lafourche and other areas along the Gulf Coast.
Suzanne Roberts Hawes, botanist for Army Corps of Engineers and active environmentalist, dies at 74
July 08, 2010
The Times-Picayune
Suzanne Roberts Hawes, an environmental advocate for the Army Corps of Engineers who specialized in building coalitions to restore and preserve Louisiana's fragile ecosystem, died Friday at Touro Infirmary of liver failure. She was 74.
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