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Looking back at the state of state coastal policy
Editor’s note: September 30, 2009 marks an entire year since I “escaped” from eighteen years’ employment with the Governor’s Office...
Jindal wants carbon bucks but bucks carbon regs.
Editor’s note: Louisiana journalists have been doing yeoman coastal work lately. Below you can link to two newspaper articles that capture an exquisite political...
Reducing flood risk for NOLA: a tale of two minerals
Editor’s note: The previous two posts discussed the concept of using industrial waste stockpiles as sediment sources to bolster levees in the NOLA area. I...
Red mud redux
Hypothetical red mud levee construction Editor’s note: I attended the September 16 meeting of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA), the...
Why not use red mud and gypsum waste for NOLA levees?
Editor’s note: I believe that the search by the corps of engineers for materials to bolster flood protection levees in the NOLA area has ignored two potentially...
Science v. politics in coastal Louisiana
Figure one Editor’s note: On Thursday September 10 at the invitation of Assoc. Professor Andy Nyman I presented a seminar to graduate students in the LSU...
Writing a coastal proscription, an “unplan”
Editor’s note; my most recent post involved diagnosing and prescribing for coastal problems and this Labor Day post continues that theme. At the September...
Who’s diagnosing the coast and who’s prescribing treatment?
Editor’s note: September 1, 2009 dawned sunny and cool. Fall is definitely in the air and I celebrated by dropping the top on my little car and driving to...
How the Lion of the Senate influenced coastal Louisiana, a personal memory
Editor’s note: This timely and insightful guest post is by G. Paul Kemp, Ph.D., not just a close friend but as credible a colleague as anyone I know when it...
