Coast

Coastal Desk

Uncertainty looms over plan to save coastal Louisiana

Terry L. Jones (Floodlight)

Federal leaders and Gov. Jeff Landry clash over the state’s projected spending for the $3 billion project.

United Houma Nation Chief Lora Ann Chaisson (left), attorney Derrick Prentice and landowner Michael Heck sign an Act of Donation that returns sacred mounds back to the tribe on December 13, 2024.

Coastal Desk

United Houma Nation gets 2 sacred mounds as Land Back movement gains traction in Louisiana

Eva Tesfaye

Property owners in Dulac, La. have returned sacred land to the United Houma Nation.

An aerial view of broken wetlands in Plaquemines Parish. Projections by Climate Central indicate that the parish could lose another 100,000 acres of wetlands by the end of the century.

Coastal Desk

Louisiana voters want federal money from offshore wind to go toward coastal restoration

Eva Tesfaye

Louisiana’s coastal restoration fund could get a boost from offshore wind revenues.

Oil on a beach on Grand Isle, Louisiana. June 7, 2010.

Local News

Public Health Questions Persist As Pollution Data Lags Following Hurricane Laura

Tegan Wendland

The Environmental Protection Agency said none of the chemical and oil spills in Texas caused by Hurricane Laura are emitting dangerous levels of...

Canals carved by oil and gas companies through Louisiana marshes have led to saltwater intrusion and erosion.

Local News

Freeport McMoRan Settles Coastal Lawsuits

Tegan Wendland

Seven parishes in coastal Louisiana have sued oil and gas companies to restore the coast. The suits say that nearly a hundred companies carved canals...

Rhett Williams learned palmetto basket weaving at a summer camp last year and has since taken it up as a hobby.

Local News

As People Move North, State Makes Effort To Protect Coastal Cultures

Tegan Wendland

Louisiana’s coast is a unique mix of cultures. For hundreds of years Europeans, Africans and Native Americans have lived off the land and water. But...