by Mark Schleifstein / nola.com Because of increasing rates of sea level rise fueled by global warming, the remaining 5,800 square miles of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands in the Mississippi River delta will disappear. The only question is how quickly it will happen, […]
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New Orleans!! Fight corporate greed! March to the Marriott! August 5
Stand up, and fight back in New Orleans! ALEC is hosting their annual summit at the Marriott in New Orleans from August 1-6th. We will meet them there to let them know they can’t pull the strings from the behind the curtain […]
Continue readingArmy Corp. Deliberatly Floods Rural Louisiana to save New Orleans, Oil Refineries & Chemical Plants
A steel, 10-ton floodgate was slowly raised Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the Mississippi River, away from heavily populated areas downstream. The water spit out slowly at first, then began gushing like […]
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