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nola.com, Mark Schleifstein — Covington-based Weeks Marine Inc., one of the nation’s largest dredging companies, announced Wednesday (July 19) that it is building a new $60 million dredge, largely because of the increased demand caused by the state’s coastal restoration…
waltonfamilyfoundation.org, Kyle Peterson — Imagine if your state was suffering the world’s highest rate of land loss, with coastal wetlands rapidly disappearing, leaving communities more vulnerable to large storms – all the while facing the start of another hurricane season…
nola.com, Mark Schleifstein — The state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority focused on its so-far unsuccessful efforts to get the federal government to dismiss a $3 billion bill for the state’s share of building the New Orleans area hurricane levee…
Louisiana’s fragile coastline receded at a significantly slower rate — an average of a football field every 100 minutes — between 2010 and 2016, according to a study released Wednesday (July 12) by the U.S. Geological Survey. That’s an improvement, yet land is…