Land loss in Louisiana: The fight to preserve our coastline

Ambitious project to revive Louisiana coastline runs aground

Politics and environmental concerns imperil plans to divert the Mississippi River to build new land

Land loss in Louisiana: The fight to preserve our coastline

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A plan to reconnect the Mississippi River to its wetlands, build new land, and restore dying estuaries is on life support. The Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project has paused after Governor Jeff Landry paused the work and the Army Corps of Engineers pulled the permit. Polls show that the majority of Louisianans support the project. Every aspect of Mid-Barataria has been reviewed by experts and the $3 bill…

Former Gov. John Bel Edwards tells Corps he didn't withhold report on huge Louisiana coastal project

Former Gov. John Bel Edwards has written a detailed letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers strongly denying that his administration “deliberately withheld” information about the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, the mammoth $3 billion plan to help restore Louisiana’s eroding…

Massive Louisiana coastal project in peril

An ambitious project to restore a rapidlyvanishing stretch of Louisiana coast that wasdevastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has beenthrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov.Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed anunfavorable study that it was feared could imperilthe $3 billion effort.It’s a controversy that was even predicted by theprevious administration as it grappled with how tohandle conflicting environmental analyses for theproje…