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Lawsuit challenges plans to build Alabama convention center with BP spill money
By AMY WOLD awold@theadvocate.com A lawsuit filed Thursday challenging federal approval of the use of some BP oil spill money to help build a convention center in Alabama shouldn’t impact Louisiana’s projects included in the same funding package. “Those projects are severable, and each one stands on its own or falls on its own as the case may be,” [...]
Gulf State Park convention center challenged in lawsuit; Group calls project ‘shocking misuse of restoration funds’
By Dennis Pillion | dpillion@al.com on October 24, 2014 at 5:27 PM, updated October 24, 2014 at 5:29 PM GULF SHORES, Alabama -- The Gulf Restoration Network, an environmental group based in New Orleans, has filed a law suit seeking to block the use of $58 million in Deepwater Horizon oil spill recovery funds to construct a hotel and [...]
Louisiana Has a Wild Plan to Save Itself from Global Warming: Too bad the state is being destroyed from within
By: Nathaniel Rich 1. Noses In response to complaints some years ago about blocked plumbing along New Orleans’ Claiborne Avenue, city workers opened up the sewer main and found a human nose. Following the line down the avenue, popping open manholes and looking inside, they discovered ears, fingers, fingernails, shriveled flaps of skin, viscera. Where had it all come [...]
Vandenborre shares thoughts on what’s good, bad and ugly about South Louisiana fishing right now
By Todd Masson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on September 17, 2014 at 11:24 AM, updated September 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM Capt. Dudley Vandenborre is the E.F. Hutton of South Louisiana. When he talks, anglers listen. A standing-room-only crowd gave their full attention Tuesday night to the Jedi Knight of Lake Pontchartrain speckled trout fishing during a seminar hosted [...]
Rapid erosion of Louisiana coast only expected to accelerate
Bob Marshall, Al Shaw and Brian Jacobs| bmarshall@thelensnola.org, al.shaw@propublica.org, brian.jacobs@propublica.org This story is condensed from a broad multimedia presentation produced by the nonprofit newsrooms of The Lens and ProPublica. The full version is available athttp://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/ Online, you can track land loss from satellite and aerial images dating back, in some cases, to the 1930s and see the vast network [...]
