Damages to natural resources amounted to $8.3 billion of $20.8 billion agreement.
Category: Environment
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Date set for final decision on construction of river diversion, as research continues
State coastal authority to decide whether to begin work on controversial method for building land.
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Experts: Talk now about drastic changes, or deal with coastal crisis later
The mouth of the Mississippi River should be moved north and communities downriver eventually will have to be abandoned if other parts of southeast Louisiana are to have a future into the next century. Those were among the more startling recommendations proposed by the teams of coastal engineering and sustainability experts from around the world.
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River levees doing double duty, but differing standards gives feds a break
Taxpayers in three parishes likely to pick up a cost once paid by Army Corps of Engineers.
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Best-ever levee system is here to protect property, not lives, experts warn
Of all the questions being asked about New Orleans’ progress 10 years after the disaster that killed nearly 1,500 residents and clouded its future, the most persistent has been this: Is it safer now? Interviews with storm experts resulted in answers filled with caveats. The best summation: It’s safer for houses, but not necessarily for the people who live in them.
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People’s hero, Corps’ villain or both? Investigator’s life upended by Katrina findings
Like many Hurricane Katrina survivors, former Louisiana State University research scientist and instructor Ivor van Heerden sometimes tears up at certain memories. He didn’t lose a house or a family member. He lost his career. That still hurts because it was taken from him by the people he was trying to help.
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Deepwater Horizon settlements helped Obama come through with wetlands restoration funding
Louisiana will get almost $8 billion for restoration projects from BP.
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Despite Obama’s pledge, no progress on speeding up increased offshore drilling royalties
He said he’d direct it for hurricane protection, but he has since backtracked.
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Rebuilt levees don’t meet goal to protect New Orleans against Category 5 hurricane
The levees wouldn’t collapse in a powerful hurricane, but storm surge probably would push over the top.
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Join us live to discuss whether we’re safer, with flood authority member Paul Kemp
Oceanographer serves on consolidated levee board for the east bank.