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 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 [...]
Robert Wiygul helps the Sierra Club Deliver a Precedent-Setting Victory for Clean Energy in Mississippi
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, [...]
