Dec
21
2015
On a warm and muggy morning, architectural designer Ramiro Diaz is twisting a hand auger — a length of 1-inch iron pipe — into the New Orleans soil behind the Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue. About 2 feet...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on May 20th, 2015. See original post here.
These are nervous times for some supporters of the RESTORE Act, the law that will divert 80 percent of the fines BP will pay for polluting the Gulf of Mexico from...
Dec
21
2015
Originally posted on The Lens on May 14th, 2015. See original post here.
It’s not a reach to say New Orleans may be America’s most counterintuitive city. After all, we drive east to get to the West Bank. We bury...
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...
Aug
10
2015
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...
