The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced February 20 that it is launching a new program to use overflights to study the causes and possible remedies of the shrinking… Read More
Atchafalaya Basin
The New Orleans Engineer District will begin opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway at 10 a.m. on February 27, to divert a portion of the Lower Mississippi River’s flow into Lake… Read More
Detail of Corps of Engineers survey map “Belle Isle, La.” in 1941 shows north and south navigation channels west of the spillway. Spring has arrived—that special time of… Read More
Following protests and a lawsuit by local fishermen and anti-carbon groups, a federal judge in Louisiana issued an injunction that could lead to a revocation of a permit for Energy… Read More