Tagged with Louisiana 
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a sea change in climate
As the land disappears, an Indian tribe plans to abandon its ancestral Louisiana home 6
Posted 1 month ago For at least 170 years, Isle de Jean Charles -- a narrow ridge of land lying between Bayou Terrebonne and Bayou Pointe-aux-Chene in southeastern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish -- has been home to members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha tribe, native people related to the Choctaw and part of a larger confederation of Muskogees. But the tribe's history is about to take a dramatic turn due to climate change. -
while we're young?
White House announces Gulf restoration task force amid criticism of Army Corps 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
In response to criticism that the Army Corps of Engineers has failed to take needed action, President Obama is creating a federal task force to overhaul management of coastal restoration efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi.
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saving swamps, saving lives
Army Corps urged to honor Obama’s priority of restoring New Orleans area wetlands 2
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago With the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaching, a coalition of 17 advocacy groups called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to promptly honor President Obama's pledge "to restore nature's barriers -- the wetlands, marshes and barrier islands that can take the first blows and protect the people of the Gulf Coast."
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the perils of mixing oil and water
Sen. Landrieu’s plan to export Louisiana’s coastal destruction to Florida 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks agoWhile Louisiana struggles to restore coastal wetlands ravaged in large part by decades of oil and gas drilling, its senior senator is leading the effort to lift the ban on drilling off Florida's Panhandle.
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how will key senators vote on a climate bill?
Mary Landrieu (D-La.) 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Sen. Mary Landrieu has been a thorn in the side of enviros for most of her 12 years in the Senate representing Louisiana, a big oil and gas state. And now she's saying she doesn't like cap-and-trade.
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Louisiana governor talks energy in his response to Obama’s address 13
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Trailer Hitch
Children living in FEMA trailers are alarmingly sick 1
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Down the bureaucratic rabbit hole with the Corps of Engineers 1
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Louisiana’s coastal restoration efforts hit a costly snag 2
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Don't Be Like Ike
Hurricane Ike cleanup still ongoing 1
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Louisiana Senator getting no love from enviros in her reelection bid 0
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How did so much water get into a New Orleans canal? 1
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We Must Decrease Our Gustav
Oil platforms off La. fare OK under hurricane; wetlands, not so much 3
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Will Gustav be the next Katrina? 1
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Major hurricane tracks to New Orleans on eve of Republican Convention? 3
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Duck!
Wildlife so far largely safe from Mississippi River oil spill 4
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Built to Spill
Oil spills into Mississippi River after tanker-barge collision 9
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700 college students and the Clinton Global Initiative in New Orleans for spring break 1
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A Widening Gulf?
Army Corps climate efforts in New Orleans may not be enough 1
Posted 1 year, 7 months ago
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Obama takes Maine in a wicked pissah 3
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago