Dec
28
2021
So as 2021 comes to an end and I look back on 40 years covering Louisiana’s coastal crisis, what do I think our chances are now for winning this existential fight?
I’m cautiously pessimistic.
The pessimism comes from three factors.
The first...
Nov
15
2021
After the U.S. House followed the Senate recently and passed the Biden administration’s infrastructure bill with 14 votes from its 213 GOP members, but none from Louisiana, there were revealing comments from the two most powerful members of Louisiana’s...
Oct
04
2021
Every Louisiana politician—but especially members of the state’s GOP congressional delegation like Steve Scalise—should start each day by repeating this statement often credited to the great painter and ornithologist John James Audubon:
“A true conservationist is a man who knows...
Aug
09
2020
One of the biggest obstacles to Louisiana’s plan to save its sinking coast from the rising Gulf of Mexico has been the steady denial of climate science by almost all Republicans from President Donald Trump to those representing parishes...
May
20
2018
The question for this week: What kind of person wants to change laws and regulations so your children are exposed to eating, drinking and breathing more poisons? What kind of person thinks you support the idea of gambling on...
Apr
29
2018
For more than 30 years fellow Louisianians have been asking me this question: "What can I do to help the state prevent our bottom third from being consumed by the Gulf of Mexico?"
The answer has become inescapable: Join the...
