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Officials have a $50 billion draft plan to protect the Louisiana that will take a months-long journey to gain approval from the legislature.

(The Center Square) — Officials with the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority are forging ahead with a new coastal master plan for 2023, and are now moving into a

An updated 2023 draft plan includes 61 projects totaling about $25 billion.

The US Army Corps of Engineers OK'd a plan that could save the rapidly disappearing wetlands of south Louisiana, sparking some local opposition

The Corps has given the go-ahead for the long-sought Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

On Capitol Hill nothing beats a real deadline, mandating efficiency, and the end of the current session of the lame duck Congress amid the Christmas holiday season, when members of House and Senate want to get back home, may be a promising confluence of events for some of Louisianas vital interests.

In a groundbreaking Friday, officials celebrated the first federal dollars spent on the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane-protection system.

As part of the agreement, France will send an “international technical expert” to Louisiana in an exchange effort to discover which industries might help the other government reduce carbon emissions.

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For the first time in 75 years, Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been observed on Louisiana's uninhabited Chandeleur Islands despite being written off as a nesting spot for sea turtles decades ago.