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Entries by Susan Buchanan from 03/2011

Southern U.S. Less Energetic Than Nation's West And North

| Posted 03.09.2011 | Huffington Post
Read More: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, New Orleans, Sports, Cholesterol, Leisure, Children, Farmers Markets, Supermarkets, Touro Diabetes Center, Cdc, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Obesity, African Americans, Huffington Post News

(This article was published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the March 7, 2011 edition.) If Saturdays find you in an easy chair with a magazine--weary ...

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Louisiana Takes Precautions for Mississippi River Flooding

| Posted 03.15.2011 | Green
Read More: New Orleans, Baton Rouge, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Morganza Spillway, Gulf of Mexico, Oysters, Lake Borgne, Atchafalaya Basin, BP Oil Spill, Lake Pontchartrain, P&j Oyster Co., Bonnet Carre Spillway, National Weather Service, Green News

The oyster industry, deflated by river diversions during the BP spill, is bracing for more complications if the Bonnet Carre Spillway is opened. Too much fresh water kills oysters.

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Louisiana Power Plants Say They're Prepared For Quakes

| Posted 03.23.2011 | Green
Read More: New Orleans, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, New Madrid Fault, Hurricanes, Electricity, Baton Rouge, Plant Safety, Entergy Corp., Lake Pontchartrain, Nuclear Reactors, Louisiana State University, Michoud Fault, NRG Energy, Green News

Seeing Northeast Japan in ruins is a jarring reminder of lives lost to killer waves and storm surge in Louisiana and of past power outages and hurrica...

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