Spotlight
Announcing Simone Maloz as Restore the Mississippi River Delta’s Campaign Director
Restore the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) has worked for nearly 15 years to address Louisiana’s coastal land loss crisis with bold, science-based restoration solutions to protect the region’s people, wildlife and jobs. As we continue this pivotal work to advance an equitable, safer, and flourishing coast for Louisiana’s communities, ecosystems and economy, MRD is pleased to introduce Simone Maloz as our new Campaign Director.
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Grand Bayou Village Needs Your Help
Grand Bayou Indian Village, in a remote corner of Plaquemines Parish accessible only by water, is home to the Atakapa-Ishak/Chawasha Tribe. This community had extensive water damage from Hurricane Ida and more than a month after the hurricane, electricity is still limited and there is no water in the village. Learn how you can directly help those impacted.
Building a More Resilient New Orleans
With Ida recovery ongoing, we are all intensely aware that New Orleans has a lot on the line when it comes to restoring coastlines and protecting communities from land loss and climate change impacts. They city’s very existence is at stake. Strategic, collaborative, and innovative solutions are essential to our continued progress.
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$99.6 Million Approved to Continue Restoring Gulf-wide Resources Impacted by Deepwater Horizon
NOAA and the Deepwater Horizon Regionwide Trustee Implementation Group have finalized their first restoration plan (PDF, 401 pages). The group includes all four federal agencies and all five Gulf states, collaborating and coordinating to restore the environment after the 2010 oil spill. The plan calls for $99.6 million to implement 11 restoration projects across all five of the Gulf coast states. It also targets specific locations in Mexico and on the Atlantic coast of Florida.
Wildlife and other natural resources affected by the spill often live and migrate across jurisdictional boundaries, which requires a region-wide approach to restoration. This approach also links projects across regional jurisdictions.
On Their Ends: Years of flooding and catastrophic storms have Louisiana's seafood industry on the brink
Exclusive: Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser interview about Mid-Breton Diversion project and its possible effect on Mississippi
Biden Administration Plans Wind Farms Along Nearly the Entire U.S. Coastline
Speaking at a wind power industry conference in Boston, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said that her agency will begin to identify, demarcate and hope to eventually lease federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Maine and off the coasts of the Mid-Atlantic States, North Carolina and South Carolina, California and Oregon, to wind power developers by 2025.
The announcement came months after the Biden administration approved the nation’s first major commercial offshore wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and began reviewing a dozen other potential offshore wind projects along the East Coast. On the West Coast, the administration has approved opening up two areas off the shores of Central and Northern California for commercial wind power development.