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Warning signs from Hurricane Gustav How did so much water get into a New Orleans canal?	John McQuaid	03 Sep 2008	Gristmill
Here's a question I'd like to know the answer to. Hurricane Gustav dealt New Orleans a glancing blow, passing it by to the west. Yet as the world saw, the city's Industrial Canal -- a large ship channel running north-south close to neighborhoods -- filled nearly to the top, and there was some alarming, if mostly harmless, overtopping due to wind and waves. Why did this happen, and what does it say about the city's vulnerabilities in future storms -- and Louisiana's ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, Louisiana, Mississippi River, severe weather, wetlands (all these topics)

We Must Decrease Our Gustav Oil platforms off La. fare OK under hurricane; wetlands, not so much		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 10:39 AM on 02 Sep 2008 Louisiana's people and property fared better under Hurricane Gustav than had been feared, but acres of valuable wetlands were likely irrevocably destroyed. "The last thing on anyone's mind during a hurricane is how the wetlands are going to do," says activist Aaron Giles. But since happy and healthy wetlands act as storm barriers, "wetlands are a criti ...
Topics: energy, George Bush, habitat loss, Louisiana, news, oil and gas drilling, severe weather, wetlands (all these topics)

The storm of the century (so far) Will Gustav be the next Katrina?	Joseph Romm	29 Aug 2008	Gristmill
On August 23, 2005, a tropical depression formed 175 miles southeast of Nassau. By the next day, it had grown into tropical storm Katrina and was intensifying rapidly. Early in the evening on August 25, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near North Miami Beach. Even though it was only a Category 1 storm, with sustained wind speeds of about 80 miles-per-hour, it caused significant damage and flooding, and took 14 lives. The hurricane's quick nighttime trip across ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

Hurricane McCain Major hurricane tracks to New Orleans on eve of Republican Convention?	Joseph Romm	27 Aug 2008	Gristmill
That subhead is lifted from Drudge. Needless to say, he left out ' ... and on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, where both Bush and McCain were AWOL' (see TP's 'As Katrina hit, McCain celebrated 69th birthday with Bush'). Track the storm with the National Hurricane Center here. Best hurricane blog here. Readers of this blog know that my brother lost his home in Katrina three years ago, which is probably the main reason I began this blog in the firs ...
Topics: Republican National Convention, Louisiana, climate, severe weather (all these topics)

Duck! Wildlife so far largely safe from Mississippi River oil spill		28 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 1:10 PM on 28 Jul 2008 Louisiana wildlife have so far largely escaped harm from the oil spill that shut down 100 miles of the Mississippi River last week. But biologists remain nervous as the oil slick heads downstream toward the Delta National Wildlife Refuge and neighboring marshy areas, where nearly 100,000 migratory birds will alight in the fall. Barriers are being erected to keep oil away from marshes, and folks ...
Topics: habitat loss, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

Built to Spill Oil spills into Mississippi River after tanker-barge collision		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:45 AM on 23 Jul 2008 Some 420,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Mississippi River early Wednesday, after a 600-foot chemical tanker collided with a fuel barge. The collision split the barge in half; thick, slow-to-evaporate fuel has traveled at least 12 miles downriver. The Coast Guard closed a 29-mile stretch of the river around New Orleans, and residents have been asked to conserve water as drinki ...
Topics: habitat loss, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, oil (all these topics)

Good gone wild 700 college students and the Clinton Global Initiative in New Orleans for spring break	Nathan Wyeth	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Commitments to start social-change initiatives and spirited discussions of global issues -- these aren't typical results of 700 college students heading to New Orleans during spring break season. But last weekend, students from a diverse group of colleges, several dozen university presidents, and prominent social change agents -- not to mention Bill Clinton -- spent a day and a half on Tulane University's campus for Clinton Global Initiative University (with a cameo ...
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
No one wants to see this again -- but can post-Katrina protection efforts keep the Big Easy safe? Photo: NOAA Here's the good news: The Army Corps of Engineers is "racing" to complete a comprehensive levee system for metropolitan New Orleans by 2011 that actually takes into account global warming, at least in terms of sea-level rise. Here's the bad news: the levee system under devel ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, climate, climate change adaptation, Louisiana, Mississippi River, placemaking, severe weather, special series (all these topics)

Obama takes Maine in a wicked pissah	David Roberts	11 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Looks like Obama has won Maine in something of a blowout. This was a state that was widely expected to go to Clinton, and in which she had a commanding lead in the polls through late last year. At this point she's got to be wishing everyone could just go to sleep until the Texas primary. On the bright side, she's got a very, very narrow lead in New Mexico, with 99% reporting. In other rumorish news, it suuure sounds like Colin Powell's getting ready to endorse Obama: ...
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
As expected, Obama won Nebraska, Washington, and Louisiana. The victories were widely predicted, but the sheer size of them, the overwhelming Obama stompery, was something of a surprise.
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
Michael Grunwald, senior correspondent for Time Magazine and noted critic of the Army Corps of Engineers, says yesterday's historic override of President Bush's water-bill veto isn't worth celebrating -- despite what many environmental activists think. He was the toast of Congress earlier this year, but yesterday Bush was less popular. Photo: whitehouse.gov Hooray! The Everglades and coastal Louisana have been rescued! Activists and politicians alike are giddy o ...
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
Brad turns out to be as serious (on climate) as he is good looking. He came to the first CGI as an observer, not a speaker. But today he announced a major commitment: Brad Pitt expanded his commitment to New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward today by announcing plans for a new community of homes in the area hardest-hit by the worst natural disaster in American history. He is partnering with Steve Bing in creating the 150 affordable and sustainable homes, which are t ...
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
In an new series in Mother Jones, John McQuaid reports on what we should have learned from Hurricane Katrina. McQuaid knows what he's talking about -- three years before the storm, he coauthored an award-winning series predicting all-too-accurately what would happen to New Orleans if it were hit by a big-time hurricane, and he's since coauthored the book Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms. His MoJo series includes an i ...
Topics: Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

We won't even help our own For mitigation over adaptation: the argument from cynicism	David Roberts	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The second anniversary of Katrina has passed, marked by me only with craven silence. There are three Katrina tidbits I wanted to pass along, though, as they are germane to the argument over whether humanity can or should adapt to ongoing climate change. The first is from a year ago. Jim Rusch, who was then acting governor of Idaho and who is likely to take over Larry Craig's recently vacated Senate seat, said this: Here in Idaho, we couldn't understand how peopl ...
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
It sounds like an unappetizing combination, I know, but it's for real: http://www.shrimp-petrofest.org/
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
There are lots of Katrina retrospectives floating around today, on the 2nd anniversary. If I were a better man, maybe I'd write one, but thinking back on those events makes me feel sick, helpless rage all over again, and I'm about to head to a picnic with my two boys, so I'm gonna choose to stay happy instead.If you're looking for smart commentary on Katrina and the political aftermath thereof, check out this from Statfor. See also Chris Mooney's lessons learned, one, ...
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
G. Gordon Liddy's daughter repeated a standard Denier line in our debate: Humans are very adaptable -- we've adapted to climate changes in the past and will do so in the future. I think Hurricane Katrina gives the lie to that myth. No, I'm not saying humans are not adaptable. Nor am I saying global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, although warming probably did make it more intense. But on the two-year anniversary of Katrina, I'm saying Katrina showed the limitati ...
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)

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