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Jindal sees jobs going offshore; scientists see offshore coming onshore.
Editor’s note: On the final day of 2009 I was planning to post an upbeat detailed breakdown of the expansion of LaCoastPost readership throughout the year. That...
Corn obviously trumps gulf hypoxia
Editor’s note: Rebecca Gruby is a doctoral student at the Duke University Marine Laboratory at Beaufort, NC., studying public policy on coastal issues. Ms....
Jindalbells, Jindalbells! Get your coastal game on, Governor.
Bobby Jindalclaus multitasking with some Machiavelli reading for Christmas Editor’s note: Having served for 18 years in the Governor’s Office of Coastal...
Winter solstice, broken records and politics
Image url: http://www.crystalinks.com/wintersolstice.html Editor’s note: I’m tired of being told by uninformed or misinformed people that the rash...
Pumping up Louisiana’s coastal zone: update from the LWF
Louis Buatt, assistant secretary LDNR, oversees the effort to pump up the coastal zone (coordinating this effort but just out of camera range is Terry Howey,...
Climate change threatens conversation – as well as the coast
Caution: examine graph carefully before carving turkey Editor’s note: Who would have guessed last December that global warming (climate change) would come to rival...
Jindal to the Corps: “Stop dithering and start shoveling!”
The governor shows the corps how to move dirt Editor’s note: A philosophical essay originally planned for publication on December 12 was postponed in favor...
It’s time to consider forested levees
We need an objective comparison of the long term costs and benefits between (1) relatively inexpensive, low tech, self maintaining, environmentally friendly Chenieres...
Consistency is the hobgoblin of Louisiana coastal policy*
A high level corps official struggles with Bobby Jindal over the so-called federal consistency provision of the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) Editor’s...
“Climate gate” vs. Kilamanjero and the polar bear
Editor’s note: As an unapologetic supporter of energy policy legislation under debate in DC (including a market-based trading system for carbon dioxide) I was...
