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May 14, 2013
Houmatoday.com, Xerxes Wilson--The Lafourche Parish Council will discuss joining other coastal parishes in signing a resolution aimed at altering reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program. Read More »
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May 10, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times-Picayune, Richard Thompson--A federal judge has agreed to push back the trial date for a former BP executive charged with concealing information from Congress about the amount of oil leaking from the company's Macondo well in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. Read More »
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May 10, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times-Picayune, Bruce Alpert--WASHINGTON -- The head of the federal flood insurance program is promising to redo flood-risk maps to take locally built levees into consideration, according to Louisiana officials who met Thursday with David Miller, the associate administrator of the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration. Read More »
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May 09, 2013
2TheAdvocate.com, Jordan Blum-- WASHINGTON — Many thousands of southern Louisiana residents could see their flood insurance rates “skyrocket” starting as soon as October without federal and congressional action, a group of parish presidents and business leaders warned Wednesday. Read More »
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May 08, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times-Picayune, Op-Ed Columnist-Coastal experts have been telling us since Katrina that our marshes are getting perilously close to a tipping point. If we don't act very quickly, we may be too late. We lacked a plan, and we lacked money. Now we have both. Read More »
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May 08, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune--A delegation of parish presidents and representatives from 14 parishes across Louisiana has descended upon Washington, D.C., to meet with the federal lawmakers to rally against FEMA’s flood insurance rate maps and the Biggert-Waters Act, which could spell astronomical flood insurance rate increases for many communities throughout the state. Read More »
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May 08, 2013
Dailycomet.com, Nikki Buskey-- Environmental advocates are gearing up for a battle over how fines from the 2010 oil spill can be spent in Gulf States. Read More »
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May 07, 2013
FOX8LIVE.COM, Staff-- New Orleans, La.- People worried their flood insurance premiums will skyrocket may get help from a trip to Capitol Hill Tuesday. Read More »
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May 07, 2013
Houmatoday.com, Nikki Buskey-- Terrebonne’s $13 billion federal levee system cleared a major administrative hurdle Friday when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ senior review panel voted to recommend advancing an updated report on the Morganza-to-the-Gulf project. Read More »
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May 06, 2013
Dailycomet.com, Nikki Buskey--Local lawmakers are pressuring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to ensure there are no more delays in a long-awaited federal levee project that aims to protect Terrebonne and parts of Lafourche parishes from storm flooding. Read More »
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May 03, 2013
TheAdvocate.com, Bret H. McCormick--DONALDSONVILLE — An Ascension Parish councilman is heading to Washington, D.C., next week to lobby against an increase of premium rates for National Flood Insurance Program policyholders. Read More »
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May 03, 2013
Houmatoday.com, Nikki Buskey--An upcoming marsh-creation project aims to restore badly eroded areas of Bayou L’Ours in Lafourche Parish, protecting the parish levee system while creating productive habitat for fisheries and waterfowl. Read More »
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May 02, 2013
FOX8LIVE.COM, John Snell-- The land loss is so rapid his boat's GPS device is confused. "The map says we're sitting on land," Ricks said as he maneuvered through a couple feet of water in a bay that seems to stretch wider by the month. Read More »
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May 02, 2013
NOLA.com, The Times Picayune, Lauren McGaughy--Any money Louisiana receives from Deepwater-Horizon-BP oil spill clean water fines would be used solely for coastal protection and restoration programs under a bill approved by the state's lower chamber Wednesday. Read More »
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May 02, 2013
NOLA.COM, The Times Picayune, Mark Schleifstein--Exposure of embryos of a tiny Gulf of Mexico fish to sediment from Louisiana wetlands contaminated with oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill causes defects to the growing fish's heart and cardiovascular system, delays hatching, and reduces overall hatching success, according to a new study co-authored by two Louisiana State University scientists. Read More »
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