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New Orleans Ninth-Ward Bayou Needs Funds To Bounce Back

Susan Buchanan | Posted 02.04.2013 | Green
Read More: Garret Graves, Eco-Tourists, A Studio in the Woods, Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Mrgo, Waste Water Treatment, Cypress Trees, Swamps, University of Colorado at Denver, Water Resources Development Act, Lower Ninth Ward, Salinity, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Congress, Fish, Wetlands, National Wildlife Federation, Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Orleans Parish, Sierra Club, Crawfish, Delta Regional Authority, Green News
Susan Buchanan

(This article was published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the Dec. 3, 2012 issue.) The feds and the state want to see Bayou Bienvenue in the Crescent ...

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Louisiana Sinkhole Evacuees Won't Be Home For Awhile

Susan Buchanan | Posted 01.30.2013 | Green
Read More: New Orleans, Hydrogen Sulfide, Small Business, Texas Brine, Seismic Activity, Evacuations, Slab Homes, Crude Oil, Cypress Trees, Itasca Consulting Group, Bayou Corne, Louisiana Dept. Of Natural Resources, Tremors, Baton Rouge, Air Monitors, Louisiana Dept. Of Environmental Quality, Napoleonville Salt Dome, Occidental Chemical Corp., Assumption Parish, Earthquakes, Fish, Wetlands, Aquifers, Hurricane Isaac, Shaw Environmental, Gulf Coast, Natural Gas, Green News
Susan Buchanan

At the eight-acre, Bayou Corne sinkhole in Assumption Parish, owners of slab houses are waiting for methane-gas monitors to be installed in December.

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Pre-Spill, Coastal Threats Cannot Be Ignored, Environmentalists Say

Susan Buchanan | Posted 07.02.2011 | Green
Read More: New Orleans, Loyola University New Orleans, Hurricanes, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Borgne, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, Clean Water Act, Cypress Trees, Boemre, Gulf Restoration Network, Drought, Marshes, Wetlands, National Wildlife Federation, U.S. Geological Survey, BP Oil Spill, Oceans, Mississippi River, Green News
Susan Buchanan

This article was published in the Louisiana Weekly in the May 2, 2011 edition. Before the BP spill, a number of Louisiana towns were underwater, loc...

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Louisiana's Holiday Tree Recycling Outlives State Budget Cut

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: New Orleans, St. Bernard Parish, Water Management, LSU AgCenter, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Agency, Coastline, Land Reclamation, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Gulf Coast, Cypress Trees, Louisiana Dept. Of Agriculture and Forestry, St. Tammany Parish, Budget Cuts, Green News
Susan Buchanan

New Orleans and nearby parishes plan to collect Christmas trees to build brush fences in bayous for marsh rebuilding this January even though the state decided to ax its funding for the program awhile ago.

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