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Despite snubs by state Republicans, Obama budget supports critical coastal projects in Louisiana
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN BASIN FOUNDATION Bruce Alpert wrote a piece in today’s Times-Picayune that describes a $5.1 billion increase in funding for the Corps...
Jindal at the Alamo
photo from HuffingtonPost Like your typical political junkie I’ve been fascinated by the avalanche of (mostly hostile) local and national responses...
Growing disconnects between Obama and Jindal-Vitter could portend serious coastal consequences
Obama and Jindal agreeing to disagree? Last night during his Republican “rebuttal” of the President’s address to the US House and Senate,...
Florida may be the only gulf state taking climate change seriously.
Many climate experts suggest that the recent stormy experience of the states that occupy the northern Gulf of Mexico is a symptom of climate change and a harbinger...
Louisiana generates the most industrial CO2 per capita!
Despite George Will’s specious rantings on climate issues, the vast majority of professional climatologists blame dramatic changes in world climate patterns...
LWF conservation award redux
Photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK Len Bahr will be honored at a banquet next week as the 2008 Governor’s Conservation Award winner. Once more, I’m posting...
Climate truth gets more inconvenient…
Most thursday afternoons will find me sipping a glass or two of wine with a couple old friends, one of whom will inevitably assert that human causation of climate...
Post-Katrina New Orleans, a poignant verbal snapshot
Katrina-flooded New Orleans (WWL-TV.com photo) This essay was submitted to LaCoastPost by a friend and colleague, a Canadian coastal engineer who has become a...
Plaquemines Parish shines at CPRA meeting
If you couldn’t attend the February 18 meeting of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) here are some thoughts on what happened: $300...
High speed rail service for the Gulf coast? Perhaps N’Awlins to Baton Rouge!
Huffingtonpost is carrying a short but intriguing post about the new administration’s vision for a nationwide high speed rail service, presumably to be constructed...
