Just recently, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards announced that the state is starting three large-scale coastal restoration projects. The projects will restore over 2,900 acres of beach, dune, marsh, and ridge in Southeast Louisiana. Edwards announces three large-scale coastal restoration projects https://t.co/9uQXlXnOOr via @Baton Rouge Business Report — Rachel Haney … [continued]
Courtesy of NRDC. By Valerie Cleland, Lauren Kubiak Congress holds hearings this week on offshore drilling in both the House and the Senate. Offshore oil and gas leasing poses a threat to our coastal economies and the health of our ocean. Citizens, local communities, and elected officials from both parties recognize this danger and … [continued]
On April 20, 2010, Louisiana was one of many states affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It is still the largest marine oil spill in the world, with at least 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf.
Stories of gruesome bird deaths at the Ivanpah concentrating solar plant in California don’t have much evidence to back them up.
What’s the best way to clean up an oil spill? Using raw, unprocessed cotton to sop it up, apparently. New research, just published in ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, has found that unprocessed, raw cotton may be the ideal material for cleaning up oil spills — it has … [continued]
