+30 Environment From the bayous to the suburbs, Louisiana must ‘buy time’ to deal with rising seas By MIKE SMITH | Staff writer Dec 14, 2023 The road to Cocodrie is one Donald Boesch knows well, from his old house in Houma all the way down to the ragged and vanishing edge of Louisiana’s coast, where he used to work out of a trailer.
Environment Special Report Louisiana 2050: What you need to know about our vanishing coast By MIKE SMITH | Staff writer Sep 14, 2023 The newspaper’s project examining the future of south Louisiana at a time of climate change, sea level rise and intensifying storms paints a stark picture of the challenges ahead.
+13 Environment Dolphins at risk from Louisiana's biggest ever coastal project. This plan might save some. BY MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | Staff writer Aug 6, 2023 The $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion will help slow land loss on Louisiana's coast, but the threat to dolphins is among the drawbacks.
+18 Environment Islands off Louisiana coast, newly rebuilt, providing homes for brown pelicans BY MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | Staff writer Jul 17, 2023 The state bird's colonies have been in deep decline in recent years. Islands restored with BP oil spill money are helping provide habitat.
Opinion Boom around Breton Daniel BreauxUpdated Jan 27, 2024 Oil spill boom surrounds North Breton Island in 2010, after the BP Deepwater Horizon spill caused oil to flow north towards the island and oth…
Environment Hilcorp Energy oil storage tank in water PHOTO FROM COAST GUARDUpdated Aug 12, 2025 An oil storage tank at Hilcorp Energy's Caillou Island oil platform in Terrebonne Bay fell into the water on Monday, August 8, 2022, releasing…
Environment BY MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN | Staff writer Updated Jun 22, 2022 Houston-based Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. LLC, the nation's largest dredging company, has been ordered by a federal judge to pay a $1 mi…
Environment Coast Guard response to BP spill Jonathen Davis, U.S. Coast GuardUpdated Feb 13, 2023 Coast Guard crew members from the cutter Harry Claiborne pull an oil-covered boom from the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon…
News Coast Guard responds to oil spill in lower Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish Advocate staff report Feb 11, 2018 The U.S. Coast Guard in New Orleans responded to a report of an oil spill in the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish on Sunday.
News U.S. Coast Guard: 2,500 gallons of oil spills Thursday into Mississippi River near Gramercy Advocate staff report Jan 4, 2018 An estimated 2,500 gallons of fuel oil spilled into the Mississippi River near Gramercy on Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.Â