Louisiana Environmental Scientists Lobby D.C. For Closure of Mississippi River Gulf Outlet
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By Anonymous  Louisiana environmental scientists today briefed Capitol Hill  lawmakers about the damaging effects of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet and the necessary steps to close it.
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Officials in Arkansas and Oklahoma say they are having trouble working on plans to protect the Illinois River watershed because of a pending lawsuit over water quality.
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D.C.-area officials gauge proposal that would cut environmental programs but support schools.
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Authorities urged millions of people from  New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane  Ivan pushed across the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could  bring it to the U.S. coast on Wednesday night.
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Wildlife officials in Missouri are trying to get boaters to help stop the spread of invasive zebra mussels through the region's lakes and rivers.
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By Ryan Lafontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 12--LAUREL -- Attorneys representing DuPont's titanium-dioxide plant in DeLisle are asking the Jones County Circuit Court to throw out most of the 1,951 toxic-exposure lawsuits pending against the chemical giant.
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Authorities urged over a million people  from New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly  Hurricane Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track  that could bring it onto the U.S. coast by Wednesday night.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - The federal system for large water-related projects - including portions of Louisiana coastal restoration - is broken, speakers at the 3rd National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration said Wednesday.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  May 29--Side channel projects to restore fish habitat along a stretch of the Missouri River have come to a halt under pressure from the state's Clean Water Commission.   The U.S.
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By GERARD SHIELDS  WASHINGTON - Though Louisiana gained billions in offshore oil and gas royalty revenue at the close of Congress, it was unable to push through funding for the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection project over the objections of a lone Oklahoma senator.  U.S.
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With the threat of global warming growing every day, it was important that The Advocate highlighted the positive story about the partnership between the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and the American Waterways Operators to identify vessel air emissions using a HAWK camera.
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Two major oil companies and a small  Louisiana refiner are negotiating with the U.S. Department of  Energy to borrow crude from national emergency reserves as  crude producers in the Gulf of Mexico slowly recover from  Hurricane Ivan, sources said on Friday.
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By David Goldstein, McClatchy Washington Bureau  Sep. 16--WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency intends to  close labs, cut its cadre of upper-level scientists and reduce regulatory  oversight, according to an internal agency document.
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By GERARD SHIELDS  WASHINGTON - Environmental groups are praising a new Senate bill they claim would remove the potential for politics and mismanagement from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, though Louisiana's two senators have expressed concerns about the measure.  U.S. Sen.
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On the Mississippi River, below the verdant bluffs that mark the far southern Minnesota-Wisconsin line, the federal government is waging a multi-million dollar campaign against the elements.
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Scientists and state officials are considering a broad diversion of the Mississippi River into LouisianaÂs sediment-starved marshes.
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WASHINGTON _ There was hope for a cure down in the Louisiana bayous even as the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone expanded like a B-movie blob.  The year was 2000 and states up and down the Mississippi River, spurred by the U.S.