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Good gone wild 700 college students and the Clinton Global Initiative in New Orleans for spring break	Nathan Wyeth	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Bill Clinton, campus activism, climate, health, Louisiana (all these topics)

A Widening Gulf? Army Corps climate efforts in New Orleans may not be enough	Mike Tidwell	20 Mar 2008	Grist Feature

Topics: Army Corps of Engineers climate climate change adaptation Louisiana Mississippi River placemaking severe weather (all these topics)

Obama takes Maine in a wicked pissah	David Roberts	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mike Huckabee, politics, presidential race 08, Washington (all these topics)

A trio of Obama wins	David Roberts	09 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Barack Obama, elections, Louisiana, Nebraska, politics, presidential race 08, Washington (all these topics)

Another Headache FEMA sets deadline for Katrina trailer park closures		29 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:01 AM on 29 Nov 2007 What's worse than being a storm victim housed in a formaldehyde-soaked trailer that makes you sick? How about getting kicked out of said dwelling? FEMA has announced an accelerated schedule for moving 3,700 families out of trailers set up to house Hurricane Katrina refugees, pledging to be "with them every step of the way" as they seek permanent housing. But advocates are concerned t ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, Mississippi, news (all these topics)

No Forest for the Weary Gulf State forests ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, says study		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 16 Nov 2007 The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the people of the Gulf States is well known (if occasionally ignored), but the storm also brutalized the region's forests. A new study published in Science reports that Katrina destroyed some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana, leading to a laundry list of problems. Federal funding for replanting has been slow in coming, and many pri ...
Topics: deforestation, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics)

Fume and Far Between FEMA prohibits employees from entering toxic trailers		09 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:54 AM on 09 Nov 2007 Concerned about formaldehyde fumes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has prohibited its employees from entering thousands of stored trailers. And the hurricane victims living in some 50,000 trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi? Well, FEMA hasn't gotten around to seeing if those trailers are toxic yet -- last week, the agency postponed plans to begin testing -- but eh, they'll be f ...
Topics: health, insanity, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, toxics (all these topics)

A dry eye in the House Why Bush's water-bill veto was actually a good idea	Grist	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Congress, dumbassery, Florida, George Bush, legislation, Louisiana, water conflicts (all these topics)

Brine of the Times Louisiana will crack down on oil industry waste-disposal practices		05 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:56 AM on 05 Nov 2007 Oil companies accustomed to a hodgepodge of regulation will soon see stricter oversight from a new initiative in Louisiana, which will pool the resources of 15 state and federal offices to crack down on Big Oil's waste-disposal practices. The program will train some 100 field officers to identify oil and brine-water spills in the Gulf of Mexico and collect evidence potentially ...
Topics: Big Oil, Louisiana, news, politics, regulation, state politics (all these topics)

Stories from the Forgotten Coast With the Katrina-anniversary media gone, the hard work continues	Annie Ducmanis	23 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
A version of this piece originally appeared on the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors website. FEMA trailer camp, Plaquemines Parish, La. Photo: Marni Rosen The many communities of color along the Gulf Coast, be they African American, Creole, Native American, or Vietnamese American, have much in common -- and not just because they're still struggling to get back on their ...
Topics: climate change impacts, environmental justice, Louisiana, Mississippi, severe weather (all these topics)

Not just a pretty face Brad Pitt pledges millions for sustainable rebuilding of New Orleans	Joseph Romm	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: celebrity, green building, Louisiana, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics)

Katrina revisited John McQuaid explains the lessons we should have learned from Hurricane Katrina	Lisa Hymas	12 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: severe weather, Louisiana (all these topics)

We won't even help our own For mitigation over adaptation: the argument from cynicism	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

No Looking Back Los Angeles Times series looks at NOLA's rebuilding effort two years later		30 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
No Looking Back Los Angeles Times series looks at NOLA's rebuilding effort two years later The two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is a largely grim occasion, but a Los Angeles Times series has found cause for inspiration. In a 10-story installment, the paper appraises the rebuilding effort in New Orleans and the innovation it has sparked -- particularly in ...
Topics: green building, innovation, Louisiana, news, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning (all these topics)

The Shrimp and Petroleum Festival... ... for real	Roz Cummins	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: fishing, food, funnies, Louisiana, oil (all these topics)

Katrina A good analysis of the fateful hurricane's political aftermath	David Roberts	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Louisiana, politics, severe weather (all these topics)

Hurricane Katrina and the myth of global warming adaptation When it comes to climate change, prevention is more important than adaptation	Joseph Romm	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

A Playg on the Playground Green group finds some New Orleans playgrounds contaminated with arsenic		29 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
A Playg on the Playground Green group finds some New Orleans playgrounds contaminated with arsenic Some playgrounds and schoolyards in New Orleans may be contaminated with high levels of arsenic swept in by Hurricane Katrina, according to soil samples taken by the Natural Resources Defense Council. Government agencies, which have taken about 2,000 soil and sediment samples in the city, have continually insisted that the floo ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, NRDC, toxics (all these topics)

The Best Defense Is a Good ... Marsh Two years after Katrina, New Orleans is still succumbing to water	Wayne Curtis	29 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Wednesday, 29 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. Katrina left these boats high and dry -- b ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Green goes the Lower Ninth The Nation reports on sustainable revitalization of the New Orleans neighborhood	Grist	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: energy, green building, Louisiana, placemaking, solar voltaic power, urban planning, wetlands (all these topics)

Grunwald tears the Corps of Engineers a new one In a devastating new magazine piece	David Roberts	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

Death Wish Why the Gulf dead zone won't go away any time soon	Wayne Curtis	07 Aug 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 07 Aug 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. It's summertime in New Orleans. Time slows. Backyard gardens demand to be weeded near ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

John Ashcroft, Where Are You? Bald eagle soars off threatened-species list, cockfighting banned		29 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
John Ashcroft, Where Are You? Bald eagle soars off threatened-species list, cockfighting banned Two momentous avian occasions occurred this week: on Wednesday, the Louisiana legislature banned cockfighting, making it the last state in the U.S. to do so. And yesterday, federal officials confirmed the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for the iconic bald eagle. First, the cocks: by a unanimous v ...
Topics: biodiversity, endangered species, Louisiana, news (all these topics)

Drink Me A New Orleans transplant traces the source of his tap water	Wayne Curtis	26 Jun 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 26 Jun 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La. I was hiding out from New Orleans' early summer heat in a Magazine Street bar ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

Postcard From the New Atlantis On moving to New Orleans, a city defined by water	Wayne Curtis	24 May 2007	Dispatches
is a freelance writer who's written for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, Preservation, and American Heritage, and is the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails. He recently traded Maine winters for New Orleans summers. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Thursday, 24 May 2007 NEW ORLEANS, La Someone once wrote that eating a tomato grown on a fire escape dem ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Oil, Dispatches, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, urban planning, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

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