Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on November 25, 2014 at 6:30 PM, updated November 26, 2014 at 8:10 AM Results of a third-party audit of the oil spill settlement program released Tuesday (Nov. 25) by claims administrator Patrick Juneau show the settlement program has correctly processed 99.5 percent of claims. The [...]
NAACP honors Sierra Club at Freedom Fund Banquet
[caption id="attachment_899" align="aligncenter" width="233"] Robert Wiygul is honored with the Distinguished Justice Service Award from the Gulfport NAACP.[/caption] Y WESLEY MULLER wmuller@sunherald.com Twitter: WesleyMullerSHNovember 23, 2014 GULFPORT -- The Gulfport NAACP honored two Sierra Club members with Distinguished Justice Service Awards during Sunday night's Freedom Fund Banquet. Honored were Mississippi Sierra Club Director Louie Miller and prominent environmental attorney [...]
Order Approving SCP Second Round Distribution
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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 [caption id="attachment_857" align="alignleft" width="285"] Gov. Robert Bentley joins state and local leaders in Gulf Shores on May 14, 2013 to sign the bill authorizing construction of the Gulf State Park Convention Center with NRDA funds from the Deepwater Horizon oil [...]
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 [...]