Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on May 4th, 2015. See original post here.
For the president of the regional flood protection authority, St. Bernard Parish’s rejection on Saturday of a property-tax increase for its levee and storm drainage agency had...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on April 23rd, 2015. View original post here.
Since 2007, Louisiana coastal experts have claimed they can prevent the state’s bottom third from sinking into the Gulf of Mexico based on this assertion: The Mississippi...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on April 20th, 2015. See original post here.
If a hurricane enters the Gulf this year emergency planners and private citizens will have access to a new Website and system of maps the National Hurricane...
Mar
19
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on March 18th, 2015. View original post here.
On Monday, BP released a statement claiming the environment of the northern Gulf of Mexico had returned its “baseline condition” five years after its Deepwater Horizon disaster pumped...
Mar
03
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on March 2nd. View original post here.
At almost any time, the sky over a New Orleans neighborhood can quickly change from blue to black as a storm moves in, unleashing window-rattling thunder and dense...
Feb
20
2015
Give up, or fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary?
That’s the question the east bank levee authority discussed Thursday after its historic lawsuit against oil and gas companies for wetlands damage suffered a resounding defeat...
Oct
17
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on October 2nd, 2014. View original post here.
Tulane researchers recently sought the answer to a question the coastal-restoration community usually avoids: What happens to people and towns if state fails in its efforts to...
Sep
23
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on September 23rd, 2014. View original post here.
The struggle for control of the regional flood authority board and its lawsuit against oil and gas companies for wetlands damage has taken an unexpected turn.
Jay Lapeyre, chair of...
Sep
23
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on September 22nd, 2014 . View original post here.
Louisiana has narrowed its worldwide search for help in solving its coastal crisis to three teams, each loaded with local, national and international experts.
The Changing Course Competition Leadership...
Sep
23
2014
Originally posted on The Lens on September 18th, 2014. View original post here.
Back to you, Gov. Jindal.
He has the next move to determine the fate of the local levee authority’s lawsuit against oil and gas companies for wetlands damage...
