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Coastal agency asks attorney general to rescind approval of lawyer who sued oil and gas companies

The local levee authority had to get approval to hire an outside attorney to sue oil and gas companies for coastal loss.

As John Barry has said, this is Jindal's opportunity to prove himself a great governor or just another oil-industry lapdog.

Barry talks about the suit against oil and gas companies and his new advocacy group, Restore Louisiana Now.

State association of levee boards set to poll full membership on whether to sue Big Oil.

Nearly two-thirds of 1,000 people polled had little to no confidence that industry will voluntarily repair damage.

In March, months before it sued oil and gas companies, the levee authority knew the state would pull its funding.

Says Barry: "There has been no court challenge to the board’s authority because the state knows it would lose and look foolish."

Head of the state coastal agency says the $500,000 cut is simply a matter of tight government finances.

The need to resist Big Oil and the Jindal administration's shameless pandering to it has begun to forge a broad-spectrum political alliance.

John Barry says he'll form a new nonprofit to support a blockbuster lawsuit against the oil and gas industry.