Subscribe to RSSRecent storms, have they turned the tide on coastal action?
According to this recent article by Robert Zullo in the Thibodaux Daily Comet there has been an apparent shift in attitude toward action on coastal protection and...
Renewable water power for Louisiana?
Read this intriguing article by Jasper Copping in the Telegraph.CO.UK for a concept that could make the generation of electricity from even very slowly flowing...
Important Times Picayune Op-Ed
I call your attention to the spot-on op-ed by Mark Davis published on 11/28/08 in the New Orleans Times Picayune. For those readers who haven’t met Mark...
Tale of two coasts: Holland and Louisiana
The Lafayette Advertiser has developed a dynamite series of articles comparing Louisiana’s twenty-year struggle to restore and protect its coast against future...
Obama “suggestion box” re energy and environmental policy
Flash: I just discovered a new website launched by the Obama transition team inviting suggestions on the direction of the new administration re energy and the environment....
Big Oil Damaged Coast – So Who Should Pay?
Click on the following url to read a provocative article from The Thibodaux Daily Comet on the little-discussed issue of whether taxpayers or the energy industry...
Corps’ Commitment to Restoration?
Today the New Orleans Times Picayune published my letter re a recent decision by Col. Alvin Lee (New Orleans District Commander, US Army Corps of Engineers) to shut...
Bayou Lafourche: Coming Back To Life?
The concept of reconnecting Bayou Lafourche with the Mississippi River has been under discussion since 1996 and this important idea is the subject of an article...
New Yorker Writer Reacts To Louisiana’s Coastal Plan
In the wake of Katrina a group of curious New Orleans residents organized to find out what the state and the feds were planning to restore the city and the coast....
Is River Water Harmful to Wetlands?
We may be posting abstracts from the Basics of the Basin conference on Nov. 5-7. In the meantime I congratulate the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation (Carlton...
