Lawsuit seeks to protect dolphins by limiting use of flood-control spillway near New Orleans

A new lawsuit says opening a spillway as a flood-control measure in 2019 sent polluted fresh water from the Mississippi River into the Gulf of Mexico and killed bottlenose dolphins that live in saltwater.

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