coalition to restore coastal louisiana

Louisiana’s ambitious plan to save and restore its coastline is stalled amid lawsuits seeking to halt the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project. And now Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has voiced his own concerns about the project which environmental advocates fear could stall the project indefinitely.

Coastal Desk

Uncertainty looms over plan to save coastal Louisiana

Terry L. Jones (Floodlight)

Federal leaders and Gov. Jeff Landry clash over the state’s projected spending for the $3 billion project.

Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe member Pete Lebeouf works with volunteers to load bags of oyster shells onto a boat on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022.

Coastal Desk

A Louisiana tribe is losing cultural sites to coastal erosion. Oyster reefs could help.

Halle Parker

For the past six years, the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe has battled to stop its historic earthen Indian mounds from slipping into the sea, looking to the power of oyster shells to protect them. Now, they’ve expanded that effort.

On the east bank of Plaquemines Parish, across the river from the small town of Buras, a new cut known as Neptune Pass, a new cut in the river bank has opened and is growing rapidly, stirring concerns from all levels of government and disagreement over its future.

Coastal Desk

Louisiana, coastal advocates push the Corps to keep a new cut in the Mississippi River open

Halle Parker

Louisiana’s coastal authority and advocates continue to fight the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the future of a new cut along the Mississippi River on Plaquemines Parish’s east bank. The final decision on whether the channel will remain open looms, with the potential to come down in the next few months, and, as it stands, the odds aren’t in their favor.

Community

Community Impact Series: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana

Ian McNulty

Working to move Louisiana's coastal crisis beyond local turf wars, and stumping for the state's entire coastal system.The Louisiana coast nurtures one of…