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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)

Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Let My River Go Unleashing Mississippi River could be key to restoring Louisiana wetlands Painfully aware that their state is sinking, Louisiana politicians are pushing a $50 billion plan to fight wetlands erosion by unleashing the Mississippi River. The river built much of the southeastern part of the state over time, through sediment deposits. But levees and other restraints have kept it on an ...
Topics: Louisiana, Mississippi, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Nothing to Fear But Corps Itself U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decisions continue to befuddle		14 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Nothing to Fear But Corps Itself U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' decisions continue to befuddle Let it not be said that Hurricane Katrina's lessons didn't sink in. For example, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers learned that it's good to look prepared, even if you aren't -- so it (apparently knowingly) installed 34 defective pumps in New Orleans before the 2006 hurricane season. The season was mild, so the C ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Ready Orleans Not Big Easy residents move back into homes that remain in danger's path		05 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Ready Orleans Not Big Easy residents move back into homes that remain in danger's path While officials continue to debate the best way to rebuild New Orleans, those who lived there just want to go home. But as residents slowly but surely return, many are reinhabiting houses that may not stand up to severe weather and returning to areas planners think should be abandoned, some of which were submerged in 20 feet of water when Hu ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, placemaking (all these topics)

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Louisiana sliding into the Gulf of Mexico, new report says		02 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now Louisiana sliding into the Gulf of Mexico, new report says Talk about kicking a state while it's down. A new report says swampy southeastern Louisiana isn't just sinking -- it's sliding sideways into the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say Mississippi River sediments are causing Cajun country bedrock to shift. While those rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged area ponder this fact, the authors of the report, publi ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, oceans (all these topics)

America's Coast Wanted Katrina and Rita destroyed 217 square miles of Louisiana coastline		13 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
America's Coast Wanted Katrina and Rita destroyed 217 square miles of Louisiana coastline Hurricanes Katrina and Rita drowned 217 square miles of Louisiana's fragile coastline, turning wetlands, undeveloped dry land, and farmland into open water, says a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The research underscores the urgent need for a storm buffer of plants, soils, and barrier islands. "We need a ne ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, oceans, US Geological Survey (all these topics)

Life, liberty, and ... golf Lousiana spends half a mil beautifying private golf course	Kate Sheppard	22 Sep 2006	Gristmill
According to a report in today's Times-Picayune, the state of Louisiana has pledged half a million dollars to replace trees on a private golf course damaged by Hurricane Katrina last year. The expenditure was buried in the budget state legislators passed last spring, and is listed as a 'forestry program for the planting of trees and other native plants.' This comes after the state spent $13 million to subsidize the construction of the Tournament Players Club in the f ...
Topics: Louisiana, sports (all these topics)

Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands		20 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Try Me a River Mississippi River may be redirected to build Louisiana wetlands How to protect and restore the Louisiana coast? A group of researchers has a crazy idea that just might work: shift the course of the Mississippi River. Every half hour or so, the Mississippi steals a football-field-sized chunk of soil from Louisiana's coastal wetlands; it dumps 120 million tons of would-be hurrican ...
Topics: Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi River, news, wetlands (all these topics)

Life After Katrina A new exhibit lets New Orleans residents tell their own stories	Piper Hanson	29 Aug 2006	Main Dish
In the beginning of July, I arrived in New Orleans for an internship at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. I met with Anne Rolfes, the coordinator and one of the founders of the nonprofit health and environmental-justice organization, and we discussed the work I would be doing. I was to organize a photo exhibit displaying images of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, taken by the residents ...
Topics: Louisiana, placemaking (all these topics)

Rotten to the Corps The Army Corps of Engineers is the real culprit behind New Orleans' devastation	Michael Grunwald	29 Aug 2006	Soapbox
The fate of this navigation channel on the Louisiana coast, shown in 1970 (left) and 2001, offered a glimpse of things to come. Photos: White House OMB � If an unsafe building collapsed and killed 1,000 people, we wouldn't blame the building's manager, even if he bungled his evacuation plan, or its maintenance crew, even if they had shirked their jobs before the di ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana (all these topics)

A Heap of Sorrows A controversial New Orleans landfill is set to close, but eco-disaster still looms	Wayne Curtis	10 Aug 2006	Main Dish
� The logistics of cleaning up New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina are almost beyond comprehension. Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality says some 15,000 houses are slated to be torn down, and demolition is the likely fate of 80,000 more. As a result, DEQ estimates, the city will ultimately truck off and dispose of some 20 million cubic yards of ...
Topics: Louisiana, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger		27 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
And the Wind Cries Scary Pacific Northwest ocean dead zone getting larger Researchers believe global warming is behind a recurring low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Pacific Northwest ocean. Triggered by north winds, a process called upwelling encourages the growth of phytoplankton blooms; when the water calms, the phytoplankton die for lack of nutrients, sink to the bottom, and rot, using up oxyg ...
Topics: climate, Louisiana, news, oceans, Pacific Northwest (all these topics)

Army Corps of Darkness Army Corps of Engineers has screwed up more than NOLA levees		15 May 2006	Daily Grist
Army Corps of Darkness Army Corps of Engineers has screwed up more than NOLA levees The Army Corps of Engineers spends hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on ill-designed, ineffective, and environmentally disastrous projects -- and that's not the enviros talking. Harsh critiques of the Corps -- whose work includes draining wetlands and mucking about with rivers -- have come from the National A ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, Missouri River, news (all these topics)

Mardi Gross New Orleans opens new landfill without environmental safeguards		08 May 2006	Daily Grist
Mardi Gross New Orleans opens new landfill without environmental safeguards Without environmental studies or community consultation, a new landfill has been opened on the eastern edge of New Orleans. The site is less than two miles from a community of more than a thousand Vietnamese-American families and across a canal from the largest urban wildlife refuge in the country. Oh, and the landfill will lack certain safegua ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

They Put the 'Dies' In 'Subsidies' Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' traced back to farm subsidies		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
They Put the "Dies" In "Subsidies" Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" traced back to farm subsidies You know that massive "dead zone" that shows up every year in the Gulf of Mexico? The oxygen-starved, life-free patch of water about the size of, oh, Connecticut? That's your tax dollars at work. The zone ...
Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Environmental Working Group, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Midwest, news, toxics (all these topics)

I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled		14 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
I'm the Train Wreck They Call the City of New Orleans New Orleans debris heads to the landfill, isn't reused or recycled New Orleans is taking great pains to recycle the waste left by Hurricane Katrina. Wait, you believed that? We're totally lying. Debris from the pummeled city is being dumped in the landfill by the truckload, including heaps of potentially reusable building materials such as ...
Topics: green living, Louisiana, news, pollution and waste, recycling (all these topics)

Here We Go Again Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Justice in Time Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Laid to Waste Portraits of loss in the wake of Katrina	Chris Jordan	02 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to watch slide show. �� Photo by Chris Jordan. On a misty November morning in 2005, I was photographing in New Orleans' Ninth Ward neighborhood a few blocks from where one of the levees had failed 10 weeks earlier. Squatting in a driveway in foul-smelling mud, adjusting the knobs on my camera, I stood up to stretch my back and noticed a man sitting on some concrete s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Sludge Dread Post-Katrina sludge puts kids at risk, says NRDC		23 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Sludge Dread Post-Katrina sludge puts kids at risk, says NRDC Government officials have been downplaying the public-health risks posed by the post-Katrina sludge coating greater New Orleans, which is spiked with potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, and petrochemicals. So says a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, based on U.S. EPA data. NRDC is urging the government t ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, NRDC, toxics, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

At Least the City's Back Up and ... Oh Gulf Coast ecosystems slow to bounce back after hurricanes		30 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
At Least the City's Back Up and ... Oh Gulf Coast ecosystems slow to bounce back after hurricanes Gulf Coast ecosystems are struggling to rebound from last year's record hurricane season. Hurricanes Rita and Katrina destroyed over 100 square miles of wetlands in Louisiana alone. They spread salt water inland and killed many plants, including marsh grasses along the Louisiana coast, popular chow for wild d ...
Topics: land degradation, Louisiana, news, oceans, Texas (all these topics)

That's Soil, Folks Officials understating health risks in New Orleans, say eco-groups		02 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
That's Soil, Folks Officials understating health risks in New Orleans, say eco-groups Louisiana state and federal regulators are not doing enough to warn the public about the health risks in New Orleans, say public-health advocates and enviros. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council and state eco-groups, soil in many parts of the city is contaminated -- sometimes heavily -- with a wealth of toxins, including carc ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, NRDC, toxics (all these topics)

Marsh Madness Gloomy prospects for Louisiana's wetlands, says a new report		10 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Marsh Madness Gloomy prospects for Louisiana's wetlands, says a new report Louisiana's coastal marshes are screwed. That's the cheery news from an expert panel convened last year by the National Academy of Sciences. In a report released yesterday, the panel assessed a 10-year wetlands-restoration plan developed by the Army Corps of Engineers, concluding that the four credible parts of the five-part plan would slow coastal wetland ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

But Please, Come on Back Toxic nasties abound in New Orleans muck; big cleanup being planned		07 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
But Please, Come on Back Toxic nasties abound in New Orleans muck; big cleanup being planned Despite a well-publicized -- hyped, even -- recent study suggesting that Hurricane Katrina floodwaters weren't so bad, turns out the muck coating much of New Orleans poses serious long-term health risks. The Dallas Morning News compared the government's raw testing data from New Orleans, where the U.S. EPA looked for about 200 metals, indus ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics (all these topics)

Dumping to a Conclusion Louisiana officials and enviros clash over disposal of hurricane debris		01 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Dumping to a Conclusion Louisiana officials and enviros clash over disposal of hurricane debris The pressure on regional officials to cleanse New Orleans of the trash and debris left by Hurricane Katrina is intense -- so intense that eco-groups say they're cutting corners, sending garbage to areas not equipped to handle it, and on the verge of creating a Superfund-sized toxic problem. Illegal dumping in ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

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