Selections for the regional levee authority don’t shift the majority supporting coastal loss lawsuit.
Their choices could determine the fate of the levee authority's lawsuit against the oil and gas industry.
Voters wanted to take the politics out of flood protection. It didn't happen.
A Tulane institute released a report Wednesday saying projects could cost more than $100 billion over 50 years.
But there's another week to apply. Gov. Bobby Jindal needs two more opponents to get the votes to scuttle the suit.
The suit itself will be on hold until this question can be resolved.
Since the nine members of the Flood Protection Authority voted to sue oil and gas companies, the governor has replaced four of them. Now two seats are open, including one held by a lawsuit supporter. Depending on who gets appointed, lawsuit opponents could have the votes to kill the suit.
It could take months to resolve debate over how a new law was passed and who it applies to.
A state agency says it’s the first distributary to form in the delta in decades.
Just half of the money is in hand, but if they don’t start spending the money, they’ll lose it.