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May 24, 2013
TheAdvocate.com, Jordan Blum-- WASHINGTON — Most of the Louisiana congressional delegation teamed up to file legislation Thursday in the House that would delay federal flood insurance rate hikes from potentially skyrocketing near the end of the year.
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May 24, 2013
TheAdvocate.com, Amy Wold--If the National Hurricane Center starts talking about Tropical Storm Van later this year, it will mean the 2013 hurricane season was just as busy as forecasters predicted and there were 20 named storms. Read More »
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May 23, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune, Benjamin Alexander-Bloch-- The main English-language daily newspaper in Vietnam, Viet Nam News, had a front-page story on Wednesday mentioning Louisiana officials and others who are participating in the Deltas 2013 Vietnam conference this week in Ho Chi Minh City. The article discusses how Vietnam is working with other countries "to develop its river basins and deltas in a sustainable way." Read More »
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May 22, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune, Mark Schleifstein--Oyster growers on both sides of the Mississippi River who sued the state, dredge operators and BP claiming damages to their oyster leases in 2010 during the construction of berms designed to capture oil during the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill had their lawsuit thrown out in two different federal courts on Monday. Read More »
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May 21, 2013
Dailycomet.com, Nikki Buskey--Two new major Terrebonne floodgates are working and ready for hurricane season, according to local levee officials. Read More »
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May 21, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Associated Press--A federal judge on Monday dismissed one of the two counts in the indictment of a former BP executive who was charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil that was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Read More »
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May 21, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune, Benjamin Alexander-Bloch--The Louisiana-based America’s WETLAND Foundation and Vietnam National University are holding the Deltas 2013 Vietnam conference this week in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Read More »
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May 17, 2013
FOX8Live.com, John Snell-- Plaquemines Parish, LA—For the first time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the hurricane risk-reduction system for metro New Orleans will be finished this season. Read More »
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May 17, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune, Mark Schleifstein-- Any Army Corps of Engineers plan for armoring New Orleans area levees to assure they don’t erode and fail if topped by storm surge should undergo an independent external peer review, members of the authority that oversees levee districts on the east bank of the Mississippi River said Thursday. Read More »
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May 16, 2013
2theadvocate.com, Amy Wold-- With its chairman describing new National Flood Insurance Program rules as leading to a “trail of tears” for south Louisiana, the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority passed a resolution Wednesday opposing the rules. Read More »
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May 16, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune, Mark Schleifstein--Louisiana coastal officials have put together a list of 39 restoration projects that they hope will be partially or fully financed by money the state or federal agencies expect to receive as a result of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Read More »
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May 16, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune, Andrew Shaw--Catastrophic increases in flood insurance premiums, especially for property owners outside federal levees, are the focus of a new southeast Louisiana coalition of public officials lobbying Congress to oppose the the rake hikes, Jefferson Parish President John Young said Wednesday. He told the Parish Council that representatives from 14 parishes recently traveled to Washington to make the case to the House Financial Services Committee and FEMA about the financial hit that residents will take under the Biggert-Waters Act. Read More »
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May 16, 2013
2TheAdvocatecom, Jordan Blum-- WASHINGTON – The Senate approved Wednesday Sen. David Vitter’s waterway resources bill that is intended to speed up flood-protection projects such as southern Louisiana’s Morganza to the Gulf plan in Terrebonne Parish, expedite U.S. Army Corps of Engineers processes, and set aside more dollars for river dredging. Read More »
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May 14, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune-Mark Schleifstein--The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on Monday announced the creation of a fund that will administer $2.5 billion from criminal plea agreements approved earlier this year between BP and Transocean and the federal government concerning the companies’ roles in the blowout of BP’s Macondo oil well, the fire and explosion aboard Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 crew members, and the ensuing three-month uncontrolled release of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Read More »
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May 14, 2013
FOX8LIVE.COM, Carolyn Scofield--New Orleans, La. - The levees protecting Terrebonne Parish get a little stronger every day, but FEMA didn't see that when the agency issued the parish's preliminary flood maps in 2008. Read More »
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