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 [...]
For six years, Waltzer Wiygul & Garside’s Robert Wiygul has represented the Sierra Club in its challenge to the Mississippi Power Company’s Kemper Project, a multi-billion dollar power plant that will strip mine lignite as a fuel. In 2012, Robert earned the national William O. Douglas Award from the Sierra Club, in part for his tireless work on the case, [...]
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 [...]
Posted: Aug 04, 2014 10:57 AM CDT Updated: Aug 04, 2014 12:19 PM CDT By WLOX Staff WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - By next spring, Mississippi Power will stop using coal at Plant Watson in Gulfport. The move is part of a settlement with the Sierra Club. In exchange, the environmental group has [...]
Posted: Aug 04, 2014 8:18 PM CDT Updated: Aug 05, 2014 9:28 AM CDT By Caray Grace WLOX.com - The News for South Mississippi GULFPORT, MS (WLOX) - You could say, Mississippi Power and the Sierra Club have called a truce. The power company and the environmental group announced a settlement Monday, in their six year battle over the [...]
By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on July 21, 2014 at 8:22 PM [caption id="attachment_737" align="alignleft" width="620"] This Landsat satellite photo shows the status of cypress around Lake Maurepas on Oct. 20, 2009. The Atchafalaya Basinkeeper and Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper entered into a $33,000 settlement last week with a Tennessee businessman [...]
